{"id":17512,"date":"2021-08-21T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17512"},"modified":"2021-08-21T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T19:42:24","slug":"how-long-can-hiv-hide-in-ones-body-before-showing-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17512","title":{"rendered":"How long can HIV hide before showing symptoms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The range for this is very wide.<\/p>\n<p>Most people &#8211; maybe 4 in 5 (80%) get symptoms of early infection. These are usually about 14 days after infection (range about 4 to 21 days). See:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/symptoms-and-seroconversion\">seroconversion symptoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These range from being mild and flu-like to rare cases when people are hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>But 1 in 5 (20%) might not get any symptoms at all.<\/p>\n<p>After this, without treatment, HIV can take from 2 to 20 years to cause enough immune damage for symptoms of other infections start to show.<\/p>\n<p>This is why regular routine HIV testing is recommended for people at risk of catching HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long can HIV hide in one&#8217;s body before showing symptoms?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,28,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-newly-diagnosed","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512","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=17512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}