{"id":20535,"date":"2022-11-23T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20535"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:00","slug":"is-it-possible-to-sleep-with-someone-hiv-positive-and-not-get-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20535","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to sleep with someone HIV positive and not get HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Yes this is possible. The most probable reason is that your partner is on treatment. While on treatment with a viral load below 200, it is not possible to pass on HIV via sex. This means even without a condom or PrEP, there is no risk of HIV transmission. This is explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/uu-undetectable-untransmittable\">U=U<\/a>. This stands for when people have an undetectable viral load (below 200), it is not possible for HIV to be transmitted.<\/p>\n<p>There are other factors that can influence the risk of HIV transmission. Sleeping with someone who is positive does not mean you will become HIV positive yourself. These factors inc. type of sex, positions and length of time. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">More are discussed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started to sleep with someone who has had HIV since 2018 up until now. Last month I tested negative. Is this possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","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=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20536,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/20536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}