{"id":14170,"date":"2018-01-05T14:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T14:05:52","slug":"i-started-art-without-a-cd4-test-can-i-really-life-another-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14170","title":{"rendered":"I started ART without a CD4 test&#8230; can I really life another 10 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Joe<\/p>\n<p>I know it is really tough to have this news, but it is good that you have access to treatment and have been able to start.<\/p>\n<p>Even without a CD4 count, the meds will be good, but it is very strange to here that there might not be a way to get his test.<\/p>\n<p>It would help to know which country you are writing from. Also, whether you go to a clinic in the city or the countryside.<\/p>\n<p>To answer your main question, people can definitely life for 10 years if they have access to treatment. Many people have been using treatment for twice this long &#8211; for over twenty years. Based on these results, Your life expectancy can be the same as if you were still HIV negative.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to email me more information, please send it the same way or send it to: <a href=\"mailto:questions@i-base.org.uk\">questions@i-base.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am Joe and I am 28yrs. I just got to know my HIV status is positive and I am on treatment but there are no machines to determine my cd4 count. what do I do? I am told one can live for ten\u00a0years. Is\u00a0this true? I am scared and frustrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,24,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-life-expectancy","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","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=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}