{"id":19541,"date":"2022-04-27T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19541"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"does-pep-work-as-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19541","title":{"rendered":"Can PEP also work as PrEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>PEP can also work at PrEP for some of the time you are taking the PEP.<\/p>\n<p>This only works if the PEP includes both the meds used for PrEP.<\/p>\n<p>These are <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3541\"><strong>tenofovir<\/strong><\/a> and either <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3535\">emtricitabine<\/a><\/strong> (FTC) or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/3516\">lamivudine<\/a><\/strong> (3TC).<\/p>\n<p>Please see the links below for more detail about PrEP.<\/p>\n<p>If your girlfriend is taking HIV meds and has an undetectable viral load, then this also stops the risk of transmission. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">Undetectable = untransmittible (U=U)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/pep-and-prep\/\">PrEP, PEP and PEPSE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\"><strong>UK guide to PrEP<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">Factsheet about PEP<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on day 24 of pep. My gf is hiv positive and I am a man.<\/p>\n<p>Will i be at risk if i have unprotected sex today on day 24?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541","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=19541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23905,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19541\/revisions\/23905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}