{"id":19650,"date":"2022-05-04T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19650"},"modified":"2022-05-07T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T16:28:58","slug":"why-are-my-meds-now-a-different-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19650","title":{"rendered":"Why are my meds now a different colour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you are not sure about your meds, please contact your doctor straight away. You can also ask the pharmacy whee you get your HIV meds.<\/p>\n<p>This is the best way to make sure everything is okay.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor should always tell you before your meds are changed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes these can be the same meds but made by a different company.<\/strong> In South Africa, there can be ten or more different versions of the same meds.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the pill might be a different size or shape or colour, it can contain the same ingredients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes it can be a different combination.<\/strong> For example, many countries are changing to dolutegravir-based ART (TLD) from efavirenz-based ART (TLE).<\/p>\n<p>This link includes many of the different generic makes of HIV meds that are commonly used, including in South Africa.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/12423\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/12423<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I am HIV positive and live in South Africa. I used to get meds that I think were pink colour bt know they gave me blue , so is it still the same or Iam taking wrong medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650","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=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}