{"id":21532,"date":"2023-04-13T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=21532"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","slug":"why-are-me-and-the-baby-not-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/21532","title":{"rendered":"Why are me and the baby not HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>It is great that your partner is on Acriptega. It means they are looking after their health and that HIV is being treated.<\/p>\n<p>When on treatment transmission of HIV is reduced and in some cases it is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Does your partner know their viral load? If it is below 200\/undetectable transmission is impossible, even without using a condom. This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>. It means that when someone has a suppressed viral load and on treatment, there is no risk of passing on HIV.<\/p>\n<p>This would explain why both yourself and your baby are HIV negative. Even with a higher viral load, treatment will still cause some suppression and reduce the risk. Multiple factors effect the likelihood of HIV transmission and this is explained <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that my partner is using Acriptega tablets and found out it&#8217;s for HIV positive people. We have a 4 week old baby together. I went for regular HIV testing during my pregnancy and every time it was negative. How come me and the baby was not infected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,11,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-children","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532","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=21532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21533,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21532\/revisions\/21533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}