{"id":22768,"date":"2024-01-29T21:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T21:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22768"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","slug":"can-my-sister-pass-on-hiv-to-her-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22768","title":{"rendered":"Can my sister pass on HIV to her partner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>No. There is no risk that your sister will pass on HIV to her partner.<\/p>\n<p>As her viral load is below 200 and she is on treatment, <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/uu-undetectable-untransmittable\">U=U<\/a> applies and she is considered undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>When someone has a viral load this low it is impossible to pass on HIV to their partner via sex.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally being late with a dose is a normal thing to happen. As long as it is not a regular occurrence it is going to to have no impact on her treatment or her viral load.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister has been on ARV\u2019s for the past year, she is still nervous about transmitting it to her partner. As of 6 months after beginning the treatment, her viral load dropped to 55.  Do you think she\u2019ll be undetected now, because they started having unprotected sex after a year of her taking the ARV\u2019s. Is it possible that her partner will contract it?<br \/>\nShe sometimes misses her doses, but it\u2019s only for some hours. Will it affect her partner?<\/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-22768","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\/22768","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=22768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22769,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions\/22769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}