{"id":19434,"date":"2022-04-13T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"am-i-and-my-baby-safe-if-i-am-on-medication-and-my-partner-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19434","title":{"rendered":"Am I and my baby safe if I am on medication and my partner isn&#8217;t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19370\">similar question<\/a> has been previously asked here.<\/p>\n<p>While you are taking ARTs both you and baby are safe. However if your partner even occasionally takes the same medication as you there is a risk of them developing resistance and then reinfection of yourself with a resistant strain.<\/p>\n<p>If they are not taking medication at all there is no risk of this. This is because your own medication will work as <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">PrEP<\/a> and prevent a reinfection.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a reason your partner is not taking medication. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">ART<\/a> is the best way to keep both yourself and the people around you safe.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi am HIV positive and I am on ARTs. I am breastfeeding and my partner does not take medication, we are not using protection. Is our baby going to be infected? My viral load is lower than detectable.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-reinfection-with-hiv","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","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=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25178,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/25178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}