{"id":15648,"date":"2020-04-07T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15648"},"modified":"2020-08-13T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:50:08","slug":"why-is-the-nhs-texting-hiv-positive-people-to-stay-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15648","title":{"rendered":"Why is the NHS texting HIV positive people to stay at home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15649\" class=\"wp-image-15649 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NHS-message-COVID-19-191x300.png\" alt=\"Example of text message sent in error\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NHS-message-COVID-19-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NHS-message-COVID-19.png 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of text message sent in error<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your message which has worried a lot of people living with HIV today.<\/p>\n<p>If HIV is your only ongoing medical condition, it is likely\u00a0to be because being HIV positive is a reason to receive the seasonal flu vaccine. Apparently, this alert was sent to all people who are in this category.<\/p>\n<p>This message was meant for people defined as &#8220;extremely vulnerable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For HIV positive people who don&#8217;t have any other underlying health concerns, it only applies if your <strong>CD4 count <\/strong>is less than 50 cells\/mm<sup>3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>This is very different to having a <strong>viral load<\/strong> less than 50 copies\/mL (which is a good thing because it means your treatment is working).<\/p>\n<p>Several times during the COVID-19 response, different health authorities have included HIV-related information that is different to that given by HIV experts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/recent-text-message-re-shielding-sent-in-error-to-people-with-HIV\">The British HIV Association (BHIVA) also posted a statement about these text message alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, do you know why I received a text message today telling me to stay at home (see attached). I don&#8217;t have any other health problems other than HIV, but I am undetectable on treatment with a good CD4 count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648","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=15648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}