{"id":12773,"date":"2017-02-20T09:21:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12773"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T09:21:20","slug":"should-i-start-meds-my-cd4-is-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12773","title":{"rendered":"Should I start meds, my CD4 is 500."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation recommendations are, that everyone who is living with HIV should be on medication. This is even if they have a high CD4 count. Therefore, if you are ready, then yes, you should begin treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about starting treatment, please see here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only thing that can help your HIV is medication. Though a healthy lifestyle and diet are also important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I have recently been diagnosed HIV positive. I&#8217;m healthy and my CD4 count above 500. My doctor didn&#8217;t  prescribes any medicines yet , should I urge them to start me ART?  Or is there any healthy habits\/diets to maintain my CD4 count high ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}