{"id":12084,"date":"2016-09-25T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2016-09-25T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:18:47","slug":"can-arvs-stop-my-skin-becoming-lighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12084","title":{"rendered":"Can ARVs stop my skin becoming lighter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>HIV meds have not been linked to causing changes in skin colour. So they won&#8217;t be causing this and they are unlikely to help reverse it.<\/p>\n<p>This is something to talk to your HIV doctor about first. Depending on their advice, you might need to see a skin specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Ask whether to not this might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/Vitiligo\/Pages\/Introduction.asp\">vitiligo<\/a>? This is where patches of skin become lighter due to low levels os melanin. See this information from the UK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/Vitiligo\/Pages\/Introduction.asp\">http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/Vitiligo\/Pages\/Introduction.asp<\/a>x<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I\u00a0am hiv postive and nw i experincing skin changes \u2013 how can i cure skin changes my skin turn to be white. I am on arv for more than three years. Can arv can cure my skin changes or i mst go to skin doctor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}