{"id":3098,"date":"2010-10-01T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"what-is-my-risk-of-contracting-hiv-from-a-positive-partner-if-i-was-at-the-end-of-an-arv-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3098","title":{"rendered":"Can I catch HIV when I am taking PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Did you mean you were at the end of a 28-day course of PEP?<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, being on PEP will lessen the risk but there are no data on whether this would stop the risk. If your partner is stable on treatment and with an undetectable viral load for more than 6 months then the risk on transmission is probably low.<\/p>\n<p>Your local GUM clinic may suggest a slightly longer dose to cover you for the latest exposure, but I think this is unlikely to be recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is my risk of contracting HIV from a positive partner if I was at the end of an ARV course?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23990,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/23990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}