{"id":19642,"date":"2022-05-04T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2022-05-04T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:18:11","slug":"why-am-i-positive-after-so-many-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19642","title":{"rendered":"Why am I positive after so many years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hi there<\/p>\n<p>I sounds like you did not expect this test result. If not, then it is worth checking that the clinic has run a second test to confirm this first result. This is normally done, but it is good to check.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry about your result &#8211; it sounds like you have probably been HIV positive since before 2014. How are you? Do you have access to treatment and support?<\/p>\n<p>Although finding out you are positive can be difficult, it does mean you can get access to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it good that you have found out now, before you became more ill.<\/p>\n<p>It also sounds like your partners and children have been lucky. HIV is not transmitted every time, even if condoms are not always used. Q5 at this link explains this a bit more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/7308\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/7308<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you been able to talk about this to your friends or family yet? Or to a health counsellor? How is your partner taking the news?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I had  sex in  2010, the with one other lady. Then I got married in 2014 and in 2016 my wife tested HIV negative. She was also negative in 2018 and 2019 when trying for a baby.  <\/p>\n<p>My son was born a little later and he is negative and my wife is still negative. <\/p>\n<p>This month I tested hiv positive test due to blood infection for an operation.  I have not had other partnes since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","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=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}