{"id":2881,"date":"2010-09-07T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"can-people-be-re-infected-with-different-strains-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2881","title":{"rendered":"Can people be re-infected with different strains of HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n

There are two main types of HIV, HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-2 is mainly found in West Africa and is harder to get and progresses much slower. HIV-1 is the most common type of HIV. Within each types there are lots of sub-groups.<\/p>\n

Re-infection is only a problem when resistance to HIV medication is involved. If someone has HIV that is not resistant to any HIV medications then it is possible they can be re-infected with a virus which is resistant to one or more HIV treatments.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, if someone is a long-term non-progressor, which means that they are able to maintain their HIV infection over a long period without needing treatment then it is possible they can be re-infected with another strain of HIV which progresses at a quicker pace.<\/p>\n

For more information on some individual case studies of reinfection please follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are there different types of HIV? If so, can an HIV positive person be infected with a different strain of HIV if they have unprotected sex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-reinfection-with-hiv","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24787,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/24787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}