{"id":23126,"date":"2024-04-13T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23126"},"modified":"2024-04-23T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:17:23","slug":"how-long-do-i-have-to-give-my-new-baby-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23126","title":{"rendered":"How long do I have to give my new baby medicine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your new baby &#8211; this is great news.<\/p>\n<p>Please listen to the advice from your doctors though.<\/p>\n<p>Even with a low viral load &#8211; and it sounds like this might not quite be undetectable &#8211; it is important that your baby continues to also benefit from treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Different countries recommend slightly different treatments and for different times, but in all countries babies use meds for at least 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The info at this link suggests that your baby might need meds for 12 weeks or more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/infant-meds-when-the-mother-is-living-with-hiv\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/infant-meds-when-the-mother-is-living-with-hiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This time will soon pass though and the meds will protect your baby until it is okay to stop. The meds are really safe and really effective for your baby &#8211; just like they are for you.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your clinic so they can also reassure you about this,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I\u2019m positive and have a low viral load. My baby was given nevirapine and AZT medicine. Can I stop giving my child these medicines after one week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126","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=23126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23126\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}