{"id":23393,"date":"2024-08-05T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23393"},"modified":"2024-08-05T22:36:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T22:36:01","slug":"am-i-protected-after-6-daily-doses-of-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23393","title":{"rendered":"Am I protected after 6 daily doses of PrEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t worry. Many guidelines about how to use PrEP are not based on the latest research and information. This might include the leaflet that comes with PrEP and many community leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies include different recommendations for the number of doses someone needs to take befor being protected.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, everyone has the option to start PrEP with a double dose (two pills) and to be protected in only two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Other studies have reported that so long as someone takes four or more daily doses in a week, they will have a very high level of protection.<\/p>\n<p>This includes cisgender women and trans people who are sometimes still told they need to take daily PrEP for seven days before they are protected.<\/p>\n<p>More recent research &#8211; maybe not eben know by your doctor &#8211; has shown that sex an gender to not matter when deciding how you want to take PrEP.<\/p>\n<p>This i-Base guide explains everything in more detail.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/uk-guide-to-prep-february-2024\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/uk-guide-to-prep-february-2024\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started taking PrEP 6 days ago, but today i had an exposure and i didn&#8217;t know i had to take PrEP 7 days before to be protected. My question is, am still protected with the 6 days of daily dosing? Or what should i do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393","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=23393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23396,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions\/23396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}