{"id":22094,"date":"2023-07-10T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22094"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","slug":"why-am-i-hiv-negative-and-my-partner-is-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22094","title":{"rendered":"Why am I HIV negative and my partner is HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know if your partner is on treatment? and if they are have they told you their <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/viral-load\">viral load<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>When someone is on treatment with a viral load below 200\/undetectable, it means that they cannot pass on HIV. This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U=U stands for undetectable = untransmissable. This is why there would be no risk of transmission to yourself or a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they have a higher viral load and\/or not on treatment, there are many factors that change the risk of transmission. Having sex with someone HIV positive does not guarantee transmission. This is explained more <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My partner is HIV positive and I am HIV negative and we had sex without condom several times until I found out he is positive, I went for test and tested negative. Please explain why? Now we want to have a baby if I get pregnant will I get infected and the baby too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094","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=22094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22095,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22094\/revisions\/22095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}