Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n
There is no reason why your being HIV positive or your taking HIV medication should stop you from scuba diving. As a precaution, all scuba diving companies will ask if you are on any medication. This is in case there is an accident and you need emergency treatment.<\/p>\n
Please bear in mind that if you decide to state your medications you are disclosing your HIV status. There is no risk of transmission when scuba diving, especially if you are on medication with an undetectable viral load. However, I would not be surprised if the diving company had a problem with you being HIV positive. This could be especially true in countries with little education about HIV transmission.<\/p>\n
I hope you enjoy the diving experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m about to do a scuba diving course and have to fill out a questionnaire about the medication I\u2019m on. I take Kivexa (abacavir and 3TC) and Sustiva (efavirenz) – do you know of any reason why these might make diving a bad idea? I have spoken to the pharmacist at my clinic and she had never been asked before but thought was probably fine.<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-support","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}