{"id":18848,"date":"2021-12-18T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"my-partner-wants-to-stop-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18848","title":{"rendered":"My partner wants to stop PrEP."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds that your partner is making an informed decision. I understand that you feel uncomfortable but if he is aware of the risks and does not want to take PrEP you need to respect their decision.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, being uncomfortable you should not feel you have to have sex with your partner. Your parter should also respect why you are feeling uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>You are undetectable and you use condoms. There is no risk of your partner getting HIV. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>\u00a0means that if you are undetectable, HIV is untransmissable. Keeping up with your medication will keep your undetectable status.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case, your partners decision is not fair: HIV positive people often take the lead role in looking after their partner&#8217;s health. Sometimes PrEP works the other way though and negative partners feel they are sharing part of the experience of their positive partner.<\/p>\n<p>Although each person should be responsible for their own health care, by using condoms you are both already doing this.<\/p>\n<p>If you have another question, send it in.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner wants to discontinue taking PrEP. He says he&#8217;s not up for taking these pills. Although I&#8217;m undetectable and we use condoms, I feel uncomfortable with his decision. We spoke about it and the risks involved, but he still want to stop. This is making me very anxious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,51,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848","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=18848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25077,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18848\/revisions\/25077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}