{"id":17789,"date":"2021-11-15T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17789"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"is-unprotected-sex-safe-after-a-course-of-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17789","title":{"rendered":"Is unprotected sex safe after a course of PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Jacob,<\/p>\n<p>How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>No. It is not safe to have unprotected sex after a course of PEP. PEP is used after possibly being exposed to HIV to prevent seroconversion, it is not used to stop transmission before sex.<\/p>\n<p>To have unprotected sex safely, using <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\/what-is-prep\">PrEP<\/a> will reduce the risk of getting HIV from sex by 99% if taken as prescribed. PrEP will not protect against other STIs, using a condom (barrier) with PrEP will help prevent HIV transmission and reduce the risk of other STIs.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PrEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any more questions do get in touch,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it safe to have unprotected sex after taking PEP for 30 days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,31,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse","category-prep","category-sexual-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17789\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}