{"id":333,"date":"2008-03-11T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=333"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:34","slug":"what-are-the-risks-of-catching-tb-if-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/333","title":{"rendered":"What are the risks of catching TB if I am HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question. It is important that you contact your doctor and tell him about this situation. You have already been exposed to tuberclosis and you might already be infected. If you talk to your HIV doctor about the situation you should be able to access some prophylactic treatment.<\/p>\n<p>After the first two weeks of treating pulmonary tuberclosis that a person is usually no longer infectious.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it would be advisable for you not to share the same living environment, at least for the next two weeks, if you have other choices.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor who is treating your brother should have also asked about his family and living situation, and been much more pro-active at protecting your health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis yesterday. He is HIV negative. I am HIV positive since 2002 and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","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=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}