{"id":17791,"date":"2021-11-15T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2021-11-15T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T19:36:13","slug":"do-i-need-to-take-arvs-with-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17791","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to take ARVs with food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to hear you have recently gone back to the clinic for your medication. Do you mind if I ask what ARVs you&#8217;re taking? There are many medications that do not require being taken with food.<\/p>\n<p>As you are talking about access to food in South Africa alongside HIV medication, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tac.org.za\/\">TAC<\/a> might be able to offer more local advice.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any more questions feel free to ask,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, I have been HIV positive since 2008. When I found out I started taking my medication right away. Sometimes I miss a dose as I am not always working and I don&#8217;t have food to put on the table. This year I went back to the clinic and started my treatment again. I am scared because if I am not working and I am taking my ARVs, I eat too much. Why do clinics not have at least porridge so that in the morning I can eat before taking my treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","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=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}