{"id":22442,"date":"2023-10-25T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","slug":"can-i-pass-on-hiv-if-i-am-on-malaria-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22442","title":{"rendered":"Can I pass on HIV if I am on malaria treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you feeling?<\/p>\n<p>While the malaria infection is active it can cause an increase in your viral load.<\/p>\n<p>As you already have a very suppressed viral load, it is likely that this will still not increase more than 200 meaning there would be no risk to your partner.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this was to be above, the risk will still remain minimal.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been on anti-malarial treatment? While you are being treated for malaria it would be recommend that you use condoms or your partner be on PrEP for this small duration.<\/p>\n<p>After which you can then retest your viral load and check that you are undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, please help me. I wanted to know the chances of transmitting HIV to a non positive partner if I have malaria. I have been virally suppressed since 2019 with a viral load of less than 20 each time I go in for testing. Am worried I might infect my partner because of the malaria infection i&#8217;m treating. Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442","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=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22443,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}