{"id":3341,"date":"2010-11-15T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"does-my-partner-need-to-use-a-condom-if-i-am-on-efavirenz-and-want-to-become-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3341","title":{"rendered":"Does my partner need to use a condom if I am on efavirenz and want to become pregnant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>I will answer each question separately.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count is doing very well, so treatment seems like it is working for you.<\/p>\n<p>Efavirenz is not generally recommended when planing to become pregnant. Please speak to your doctor in case there are alternative treatments you can use for a short period. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3306\">This question<\/a> deals with this in more detail and <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/drugs-not-recommended\">this page<\/a> of the i-Base guide to pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>If your viral load is undetectable, this is the most important factor in protecting your boyfriend from catching HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Although circumcision reduces the risk by about 60%, it does not provide long-term protection.<\/p>\n<p>If your viral load is undetectable, you could have sex without using a condom to become pregnant, but it would be safest for him to use a condom afterwards for the future.<\/p>\n<p>See this section of the i-Base <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/planning\">guide to Pregnancy and Women&#8217;s Health<\/a>. The sections after this include more detailed discussion on the risk for your partner.<\/p>\n<p>If he has not caught HIV so far, a lot of this is down to good luck. If you are planning a family, if he became HIV-positive in the future it would only add complications to all your lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV-positive and on Truvada and efavienz. Two months ago my CD4 was 550 but when I started it was in June 2008 it was much lower. My boyfriend is HIV-neg but he has high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Is it ok if i plan to have a baby? We have sex without a condom because he says he is circumusised. We did both tests and he is still negative.<\/p>\n<p>Plz help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","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=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24773,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/24773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}