{"id":20168,"date":"2022-07-11T21:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20168"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:41:02","slug":"is-it-recommended-for-people-living-with-hiv-to-get-the-shingles-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20168","title":{"rendered":"Is it recommended for people living with HIV to get the shingles vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Hi, how are you doing?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Yes, it is recommended to have a shingles vaccine in your case. This is a recommendation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/file\/NriBJHDVKGwzZ\/2015-Vaccination-Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BHIVA guidelines<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">You will need testing for if you are unsure if you&#8217;ve had chicken pox\/shingles in the past. This is because the chicken pox vaccine would be more suitable if you have not.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">If you have had shingles, the other criteria for having the shingles vaccines include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">You are 60<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">on established ART<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">CD4 count is greater than 200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">If this is the case, the shingles vaccine will be safe for you to have.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Josh<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on Biktarvy. RITA test indicated a recent infection.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m 60,  undetectable  and fit. No other health conditions. Is it recommended for people living with HIV to get the shingles vaccine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168","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=20168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}