{"id":13005,"date":"2017-06-12T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","slug":"is-my-son-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/13005","title":{"rendered":"Is my son positive if I was diagnosed when breastfeeding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Because you were diagnosed when you were breastfeeding its very important that you have your baby tested. Even if he seems OK, he may have contracted HIV from you.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is still a low risk, but it is much better to check now.<\/p>\n<p>The test will also let you stop worrying if the result is negative and the baby can access care in the small chance that he is positive.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, you will just keep worrying for every sign. I don&#8217;t think hair growth pattern is relevant to this.<\/p>\n<p>How are you doing with your own health? What is your CD4 count and are you taking HIV treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been checking HIV through out the pregnancy and was negative, I gave birth and checked also found negative. However, I breastfed my child till he was one year old, on his 12th month I was diagnosed HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped breastfeeding immediately after founding out that I am HIV positive, I never took him for any tests to the clinic because I am scared. He is growing very well but his hair is not growing &#8230; Is he also HIV positive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","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=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25046,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/25046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}