Hi<\/p>\n
It is not clear from your post, whether you are a man or a woman – and this is important when looking at details of risk to your partner.<\/p>\n
If your partner is a man, then this is an easier answer. Thousands of HIV-positive women are safely having HIV-negative children but using combination therapy through their pregnancies to reduce viral load to undetectable at birth.<\/p>\n
If your partner is a woman, then options include sperm-washing, but also using combination therapy to reduce your viral load and then using careful limited conception attempts, with very limited risk to your partner.<\/p>\n
More information about all aspects of HIV and pregnancy are in this i-Base guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n Links to studies about using combination therapy and limited conception attempts with an undetectable viral load include this study from the Glasgow conference in 2004<\/a> and this study from the IAS conference in Sydney in July 2007 a few weeks ago. I have recently been diagnosed as HIV-positive and received my counts back CD4 read between 350 – 400 with a viral load of 20,000.<\/p>\n It came as an awful shock as I have been with my partner consistently for 3 years now after previously splitting, prior to this we had been together for 12 years.<\/p>\n We only found out these results as we were trying to conceive and I had recently received a slightly abnormal smear (my partner is HIV-negative).<\/p>\n Time is not on my side – I am 42 years old. Will it still be possible for us to consider having children?<\/p>\n I understand the importance of using condoms but both my partner and myself would desperately like a child. Could this ever be conceived naturally with minimum of risk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-pregnancy","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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