{"id":19599,"date":"2022-04-30T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19599"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:05:08","slug":"do-all-hiv-positive-people-need-the-fourth-vaccine-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19599","title":{"rendered":"Do all HIV positive people need the fourth vaccine dose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8211; and yes &#8211; it is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, all people living with HIV are recommended to have the fourth vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you have a good CD4 count, the vaccine protection will be getting lower after six months. The booster is also needed to work well against Omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p>Great you have been lucky so far &#8211; but boosting protection now is still important.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this recent statement from BHIVA with more details on the fourth dose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/42638\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/42638<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I took 2 doses of vaccine  Pfizer  in 2 and 23 March 2021. Then, on 17  November 2021 I took the third dose (booster). <\/p>\n<p>I havent been ill or i fected with covid since the beggining of pandemic. Is it ok not to take a fourth dose (now after almost 6 months from the third one)? <\/p>\n<p>I am hiv positive, viral load undetectable and cd4 count up 600. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599","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=19599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}