{"id":19674,"date":"2022-05-05T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19674"},"modified":"2022-05-07T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T13:47:29","slug":"what-do-i-need-to-know-before-starting-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19674","title":{"rendered":"What do I need to know before starting ART?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">hi there, thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">First of all, how are you?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Are you only recently diagnosed? If yes,\u00a0are you getting the support you need?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Although it can be difficult to find out you are positive, this is much better than not knowing. Starting ART will protect your health for many years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Modern ART is very effective and safe.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It is also good to know&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Which meds your doctor recommends? You can then find out info about them &#8211; and also ask about alternatives.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">That adherence is really important. Making sure you don&#8217;t miss doses is especially important when you first start.<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">Whether there are side effects. If yes, what to to out for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">This online guide has a lot more info on all these things.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1651835601912000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VDFbfkFsjwMpko-rAiGfk\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/<wbr \/>starting<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,  I need to start the ART &#8211; what are the points I need to consider?<\/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-19674","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\/19674","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=19674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}