{"id":26879,"date":"2026-10-12T19:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26879"},"modified":"2026-10-12T19:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T19:42:47","slug":"do-people-living-with-hiv-still-need-a-covid-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26879","title":{"rendered":"Do people living with HIV still need a COVID vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a great question and at the right time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is <strong>YES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>UK guidelines still recommend getting a routine vaccination or booster shot against COVID-19. This is especially as the UK is going into winter when the risk is much higher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is also a good time to get the routine annual flu vaccination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both vaccines are available free to people living with HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there Thanks for a great question and at the right time of year. The short answer is YES. UK guidelines still recommend getting a routine vaccination or booster shot against COVID-19. This is especially as the UK is going &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879","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=26879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26882,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26879\/revisions\/26882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}