{"id":20956,"date":"2023-01-20T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:59","slug":"does-my-wife-need-more-testing-after-40-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20956","title":{"rendered":"Does my wife need more testing after 40 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Dan, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your wife&#8217;s pregnancy. As you have been on treatment so long do you know your viral load? If your viral load is below 200 you cannot pass on HIV via sex. This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>. It means that even without condoms\/PrEP, it is not possible for you to pass on HIV. There would be no need for your wife to test.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a viral load above 200 it is possible to pass on HIV, though being on treatment does reduce the risk. Do you know the type of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">test<\/a> your wife used? The earliest you can have a confirmatory result is with a 4th generation test from 42 days after exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Dan and HIV+. I&#8217;ve been on treatment for 6 years my wife is HIV- and pregnant. She tested (using blood from the vain) 40days after our intercourse that lead to the pregnancy and still HIV- do we still need further HIV testing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,22,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956","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=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20957,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions\/20957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}