{"id":19744,"date":"2022-05-16T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19744"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"i-am-taking-arvs-and-undetectable-is-there-risk-having-sex-with-someone-hiv-positive-not-on-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19744","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m undetectable. Is it safe to have sex with someone not taking ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>While you are taking Volutrip daily there is no risk to you.<\/p>\n<p>Volutrip is a generic version of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/14970\">TLD<\/a>. TLD is a combination that can be used to both treat and prevent HIV transmission.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, reinfection could occur if your partner already has drug resistance to the meds in TLD. In practice this\u00a0risk will be very low because resistance to dolutegravir in South Africa is still very rare.<\/p>\n<p>As you are undetectable there is no risk of reinfection a partner who is HIV positive but not on ART.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a reason your partner is not taking ARVs? Doing so will reduce their own risk of passing on HIV to others and keep themselves healthy.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the risk of having unprotected sex with someone who is HIV positive not taking treatment? <\/p>\n<p>I am on treatment, Volutrip, my viral load is undetectable. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m based in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,21,23,51,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-reinfection-with-hiv","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25169,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19744\/revisions\/25169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}