{"id":222,"date":"2007-11-16T16:36:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=222"},"modified":"2014-01-05T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:53:21","slug":"is-it-important-to-get-a-resistance-test-after-being-diagnosed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/222","title":{"rendered":"Is it important to get a resistance test after being diagnosed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\">BHIVA (British HIV Association) guidelines <\/a>recommend routine use of resistance test in anyone who is newly diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p>In people who have been HIV positive for several years already, then they recommend having a resistance test before starting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This is in case you were infected with a resistant strain of HIV. Without the information from the test, you could chose the wrong drugs when you come to start treatment, and the treatment would be at a higher risk of failing.<\/p>\n<p>The EuroGuidelines HIV resistance Group has set out guidelines on use of HIV resistance testing in selecting HIV therapy.<\/p>\n<p>If your clinic didn&#8217;t test you, go back and ask them again &#8211; and include the information from this post.<\/p>\n<p>We have heard of several clinics who only provide the test when patients go back and ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed in September and my CD4 count was 420 and viral load was 32,000 but I didn&#8217;t get a resistance test.<\/p>\n<p>How important in this as I read in your combination therapy guide that I should get one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}