{"id":22056,"date":"2023-07-03T17:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22056"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","slug":"can-i-marry-my-girlfriends-if-she-is-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22056","title":{"rendered":"Can I marry my girlfriend if she is HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">How is your girlfriend doing? Is she currently using HIV treatment? This is generally recommended, even if she is feeling well and if there are no symptoms.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">HIV treatment means that your partner can lead a long and healthy life. It is generally recommended for everyone who tests positive.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Once your partner has an undetectable viral load, the meds will also protect you. This includes if you both do not want to use a condom. See this info on U=U:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It also means that you can still have a family, without the children being at risk of HIV.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please see answers to questions 6, 9, 10 and 14 here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/most-asked-questions\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/most-asked-questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One caution to this answer is that a small number of regions in a few countries include an HIV test before getting married.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Because of the benefits from ART, these countries and regions are now very uncommon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Best wishes and good luck with your plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, my girlfriend is HIV positive but she doesn&#8217;t have any symptoms. Can I marry her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,24,36,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-life-expectancy","category-sero-different-couples","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22056","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22058,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22056\/revisions\/22058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}