{"id":13794,"date":"2017-10-01T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","slug":"can-you-transmit-hiv-when-your-viral-load-is-detectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/13794","title":{"rendered":"Can you transmit HIV when your viral load is detectable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Even if your viral load is low when you start meds, it usually takes longer than a week to become undetectable. With integrase inhibitors, this might take a few weeks and with other combinations a few months.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you start with a very high viral load (above 100,000 c\/mL) it might take longer still.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of catching HIV is generally low from a single time. However, this will depend on what the sex involved and how high your viral load is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m HIV positive and have been only on treatment for a week. I had unprotected sex, Is it possible for the guy to have HIV? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","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=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25039,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions\/25039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}