{"id":29,"date":"2019-02-14T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=29"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:24","slug":"is-there-an-hiv-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/29","title":{"rendered":"Is there an HIV vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is currently no vaccine against HIV, and there is unlikely to be an effective vaccine for many years.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are many ways to stay HIV negative, now your friend knows their HIV status.<\/p>\n<p>If an HIV positive person has an undetectable viral load on treatment, there is no risk of transmission. Even if you don\u2019t use a condom. This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You also can use <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/prep\/\">PrEP<\/a> \u2013 a medication you take to protect you against HIV. This is important if your partner is not on treatment. It is also close to 100% protection.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/type-of-sex-and-condon-use\">condoms<\/a> and lube when used correctly also will give you 100% protection.<\/p>\n<p><em>This original question from November 2006 was last updated in February 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend tested HIV negative. Is there any drug or vaccine to protected from HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24213,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/24213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}