{"id":23811,"date":"2024-08-25T20:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23811"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:21","slug":"why-do-uk-guidelines-say-to-wait-6-weeks-to-test-after-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23811","title":{"rendered":"Why do UK guidelines only wait 6 weeks to test after PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>As with other Qs about PEP, this is already answered at this PEP link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I do not agree with you about lots of people being diagnosed after 24 weeks. Please provide a reference for this as otherwise what you have heard is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>PEP only lasts for the period when you are taking it.<\/p>\n<p>PEP is very different to people who control HIV after a period on treatment. These people, including the Mississippi and French baby involved much longer time than PEP on HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>They are also very rare cases where HIV eventually diid come back again. They showed that some people can have a strong immune response to HIV, but that this only works for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do UK guidelines say 6 weeks for PEP users before testing, while studies monitoring PEP still find quite a few people who seroconvert up to 24 weeks late?<\/p>\n<p>I have also heard of people controlling HIV after treatment. Is this the same as PEP?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of the case of the Mitsubishi baby and the French baby?<\/p>\n<p>Does PEP last indefinitely?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,22,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cure","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811","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=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24024,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions\/24024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}