{"id":25998,"date":"2025-03-25T20:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=25998"},"modified":"2025-04-22T01:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:14:37","slug":"i-missed-six-days-of-meds-because-the-clinic-was-closed-will-this-be-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25998","title":{"rendered":"I missed six days of meds when my clinic closed &#8211; will I be okay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for writing in and letting us post this Q&amp;A online.<\/p>\n<p>I am really sorry that you had to go through this experience but it is very good that arrangements to get treatment were arranged so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to cancel US funding will affect millions of people and closed thousands of clinics, without even giving anyone notice to make new arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is better not to take a treatment break, this is an emergency situation. Your health will not be affected by the six days off. Your viral load and CD4 count will still be the same.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about what to do if a clinic closes or runs out of meds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/50701\">Stopping ART safely if your clinic is closed or runs out of meds: a practical guide.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/50701\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/50701<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m from South Africa and I&#8217;ve missed six days of taking the meds because they were finished and the clinic I was using closed permanently due to Trump stopping the AID. I recently got the transfer letter and got the medication from another local clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Will missing six days cause problem for my health? My viral load was 19 and cd4 count 498 and I was using Volutrip (DLT).<\/p>\n<p>Please reply as soon as possible I&#8217;m worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-south-africa","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998","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=25998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26078,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions\/26078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}