{"id":22627,"date":"2023-12-06T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22627"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","slug":"how-have-i-contracted-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22627","title":{"rendered":"How have I contracted HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had a second test to confirm your result? and have you started treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Have you been told what your CD4 count and viral load is?<\/p>\n<p>And do you know the status of your partner?<\/p>\n<p>When you had sex did you use a condom? Other factors that can change transmission risk via sex is <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">explained here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other routes of transmission inc. drug use and needle stick injuries. More information about transmission can be <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How have you been since testing positive? Do you have a support network around you e.g., friends, family, even your doctor?<\/p>\n<p>Josh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested HIV negative in February 2018 and since then I never had intercourse with anybody until 2023 October when I slept with the very man I had in 2017. Today I went for testing and the result is positive, how have I contacted it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627","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=22627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22628,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22627\/revisions\/22628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}