{"id":23135,"date":"2024-04-14T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23135"},"modified":"2024-04-23T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T14:18:43","slug":"23135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23135","title":{"rendered":"I just started ART but my partner doesn&#8217;t know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your questions.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that you have now started treatment and I hope this is going well.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t an easy answer about talking to your partner though, because you know him and how he might react. If this is just about using condoms though, then after your viral load becomes undetectable, this will also protect your partner even without condoms.<\/p>\n<p>Has your partner tested recently and is there a chance he might already be HIV positive too? Just that he doesn&#8217;t want to know about this?<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been routinely using condoms then the risk to your partner will now be going down each week until you become undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>You partner should really have an HIV test though in case he is already positive.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I just found out that I&#8217;m HIV positive and I&#8217;ve been testing negative the past few months and I&#8217;ve started my medication yesterday and my boyfriend doesn&#8217;t know yet and he never likes protected sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,36,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-sero-different-couples","category-starting-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135","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=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23215,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions\/23215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}