{"id":14648,"date":"2018-08-30T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T09:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2018-08-30T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T09:39:23","slug":"can-other-drugs-reduce-effectiveness-of-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14648","title":{"rendered":"Can other drugs reduce effectiveness of ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>How are you and how is your new treatment?<\/p>\n<p>You are right to be careful because sometimes other drugs can interact with HIV meds. It the interaction reduces the HIV meds, they will be less effective.<\/p>\n<p>Although your current meds are often safe with other types of medicines, please tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are taking any other treatments. This includes over-the-counter medicines, herbs and supplements.<\/p>\n<p>This online booklet has lots more information about HIV treatment, if this is new for you.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any drugs that, if used in combination with ARV, may reduce ARV\\&#039;s effectiveness?<\/p>\n<p>I live in Vietnam and am currently on tenofovir, lamivudine and\u00a0efavirenz.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve taken HIV therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","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=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}