{"id":124,"date":"2007-06-12T00:09:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T23:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=124"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:24","slug":"im-hiv-positive-and-want-to-know-how-often-should-i-have-sex-with-my-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/124","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m HIV positive and want to know how often should I have sex with my girlfriend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can have sex as many, or as few times, as you and your girlfriend want to do this.<\/p>\n<p>So long as you always use a condom for sex, and are careful to check it is in place during sex, your partner will be protected from catching HIV.<\/p>\n<p>For your own health, you need to have your CD4 count checked as part of your routine monitoring. If your CD4 count drops to around 200 cells\/mm3, this is when most people are recommended to start treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If you get any symptoms or other illnesses you may need to start at a higher count, but other infections are relatively rare above 200.<\/p>\n<p>More information about treatment is included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/\">i-Base Guide to Combination Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV+. I tested 3 years ago, but I may have been infected years before that.<\/p>\n<p>I want an advice that how many times per week or month should I make sex with my girlfriend using a condom?<\/p>\n<p>I am afraid of my HIV-positive life. I don&#8217;t have the signs and symptoms and i am not taking antiretroviral drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","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=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24633,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/24633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}