{"id":15166,"date":"2019-08-01T21:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15166"},"modified":"2019-08-01T21:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:41:34","slug":"what-meds-can-i-use-to-protect-myself-for-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15166","title":{"rendered":"What meds can I use to protect myself for HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Hi there<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for your email &#8211; and for talking about your situations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">First, how is your partner feeling now? This might be a difficult time for both of you :)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The medicine you can use now to protect yourself is called PrEP. \u00a0This involves just taking one pill a day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here is a link to a site in SA with more info:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prepwatch.org\/country\/south-africa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.prepwatch.org\/country\/south-africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a link about PrEP that we produce for the UK which has other general info:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Your partner should also be offered treatment by here doctor. South Africa has a good programme of access to fee HIV treatment (called ART). This means your partner will be able to stay healthy and have a normal life.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Someone on HIV treatment with undetectable viral load, this will also protect you too. See here for more information on this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u-qa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u-qa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day. I am From South Africa. I just\u00a0 found out that my partner got HIV positive but am HIV negative without hurting her feelings how can I get this medication for my own use to protect myself from getting infected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","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=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}