Thanks.<\/p>\n
This is only a cautious\u00a0general answer because I only have a few details about this situation,\u00a0including exactly which tests were used.<\/p>\n
Firstly, congratulations to the mother who sounds like she is doing everything right. Taking meds though the pregnancy will have given the best protection to the baby.<\/p>\n
Secondly, if the baby was only given nevirapine, this sounds like the baby is not living with HIV. When there is a worry that the baby is positive, the clinic would recommend more drugs than just nevirapine. Just using nevirapine is a way to protect the baby from any further risk.<\/p>\n
It also might be confusing because of the different tests that are used. If the baby was positive using a viral load test (called HIV DNA) then the baby would have been given a combination of HIV meds as treatment. However, if the baby was tested with an HIV antibody test, this would still show as positive – because the baby has the mother’s antibodies for maybe the first two years of life.<\/p>\n
So it might be the different types of tests that are causing\u00a0this confusion.<\/p>\n
Please ask someone at the clinic to explain this. as otherwise it must be very stressful. You might also be worrying when everything is okay.<\/p>\n
Please also ask the clinic to explain about the baby’s treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello, a baby’s mother came to my facility with the complaint of taking HIV medication starting at 8 months before delivery, and and was advised to start giving her baby neviropine until 6 weeks, which her did.<\/p>\n
After the 6 weeks of administration of the nevirapine 1 mL every day, but the baby is still positive?<\/p>\n
What can she do to get the baby negative?<\/p>\n
Can she continue with the neviropine and add up the dosage?<\/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-26690","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\/26690","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=26690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}