{"id":22887,"date":"2024-03-13T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22887"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:21","slug":"is-it-too-late-to-prevent-transmission-to-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22887","title":{"rendered":"Is it too late to prevent transmission to baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>No it is not too late. Even starting a few weeks before your due date can help to significantly reduce transmission to baby.<\/p>\n<p>Many women do not start treatment until later on in their pregnancy. The highest risk of transmission is during birth. At 30 weeks you still have a lot of time to reduce your viral load before birth to make the risk as low as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Baby will also be given their own treatment for a short while after birth. For how long will depend on your viral load at birth. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19891\">This is explained here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting treatment is safe for both you and baby. Many HIV positive women start treatment at the same time or even later than yourself and go on to have healthy hIV negative babies.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m 30 weeks 5 days pregnant and HIV positive , is it too late for me to start medication to protect the baby?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887","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=22887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22889,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions\/22889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}