{"id":19453,"date":"2022-04-16T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19453"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"how-can-i-prevent-hiv-transmission-without-using-a-condom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19453","title":{"rendered":"How can I prevent HIV transmission without using a condom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Is your partner on medication for HIV? If they are and they are undetectable (<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/viral-load\">viral load<\/a> below 200), there is no risk to you and they cannot pass on HIV. This is explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a reason you are not wanting to use a condom? When used correctly a condom can prevent transmission in 95% of cases.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">PrEP<\/a>. PrEP is a medication that can either be taken on demand or daily and is used to prevent transmission of HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner is HIV positive but I&#8217;m negative. I don&#8217;t want to use condom, what can I do because I love him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453","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=19453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25175,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19453\/revisions\/25175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}