Thanks for your email and the details about your history.<\/p>\n
The Spring vaccine booster is a good idea for everyone living with HIV. This is even though your immune system will be similar to someone who is HIV negative.<\/p>\n
This is because vaccine protection goes down over time, so the booster will help.<\/p>\n
It this case, the policy is easier to work but treating all people living with HIV as one group. Please don’t worry or get upset by this.<\/p>\n
Great that you were diagnosed so early and started ART straight away. And also that you are doing so well.<\/p>\n
So long as you are good at taking your meds, HIV is very unlikely to cause you health problems in the future.<\/p>\n
It might also mean that you can join studies looking at cure-related research in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed 3 years ago. RITA test showed a recent infection, on ARV’ s straightaway, Biktarvy, and I remain undetectable.<\/p>\n
I have had my COVID vaccines with no side effects. I eat well, exercise, don’t smoke and don’t have any other health conditions However I have been offered the Spring booster dose.<\/p>\n
The booklet says for those with a weakened immune system and diseases that affect the immune system such as poorly controlled HIV?<\/p>\n
Am I missing something?<\/p>\n
I thought I now have a good immune system, not a weakened one and my HIV is certainly well controlled. Is is worthwhile just getting the Spring booster?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}