{"id":18918,"date":"2022-01-02T15:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"im-hiv-positive-ive-just-found-out-im-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18918","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m HIV positive. I&#8217;ve just found out i&#8217;m pregnant."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your pregnancy. You can definitely have hope that your baby will be HIV negative. Even finding out while your viral load is high, starting medication is going to drastically reduce the risk of your baby having HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Starting medication is what is best for keeping you healthy and keeping your baby HIV negative. After birth, your baby will be given some medication to further reduce the risk. For how long depends on risk factors that your doctor will be able to discuss with you. It takes into account how long you&#8217;ve been on medication and viral load.<\/p>\n<p>Given how well people often respond to medication, it is much rarer to have an HIV positive baby than negative. No other supplement\/medication has been proven to reduce viral load. ARVs are the only known way of reducing viral load and increasing CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>If you have another question please ask,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that I am pregnant and my cd4 count is 190 and my viral load is 50000 copies. I started treatment, is there hope that my child will be HIV negative? are there any other supplements that I may use to decrease my viral load?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,28,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed","category-pregnancy","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918","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=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25075,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions\/25075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}