{"id":18816,"date":"2021-12-16T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18816"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"i-had-sex-part-way-through-my-course-of-pep-is-my-partner-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18816","title":{"rendered":"I had sex part way through my course of PEP. Is my partner at risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Starting PEP immediately will have greatly reduced your risk. It is also encouraging that this event happened at day 23. By this point, PEP will be established in your body and hopefully working.<\/p>\n<p>There is no guarantee that PEP will have worked. Though in this circumstance it is very unlikely that your wife will be infected. It would not be recommend for your wife to start PEP based on how low risk this event was. The most important thing is to continue with your course of PEP and test 28 days later.<\/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 another question, please get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV negative and I previously had unprotected sex with an HIV positive woman. I immediately started PEP medication. At day 23, I had unprotected sex with my wife before completing my dose. I am very worried of a possible re-infection and also infecting my wife with the virus. Is there any likelihood of both of us remaining negative?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,31,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816","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=18816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23953,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18816\/revisions\/23953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}