{"id":17353,"date":"2021-07-21T05:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2021-07-21T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T05:13:33","slug":"can-i-switch-to-biktarvy-if-i-have-both-hiv-and-hepatitis-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17353","title":{"rendered":"Can I switch to Biktarvy if I have both HIV and hepatitis B?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Hi.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for your question and for letting us post the answer online.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">It sounds like your doctor is giving you good information.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/13752\">Biktarvy<\/a> is a more modern HIV combination that should be easier to take than your current meds, with fewer side effects. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/13752\">This link has more information<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This single pill also contains a newer version of TDF called TAF that is also active against hepatitis B.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current medicines are: Sustiva, Viread and Epzicom (EFV, TDF, ABC, 3TC).<\/p>\n<p>My HIV viral load showed 82 in February but it was undetectable when tested again in May. My CD4 ranges from 200 to 400.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor suggested switching my medication to Biktarvy. Is there any concern switching to Biktarvy when I have HIV and hepatitis B co-infection?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-complications-and-coinfections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353","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=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}