{"id":3472,"date":"2010-12-07T13:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:24","slug":"s-it-possible-to-have-sex-with-a-hiv-positive-person-and-not-get-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3472","title":{"rendered":"Can I have sex with a HIV positive person and not get infected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to have sex with someone who is HIV positive and not become infected. HIV s a difficult virus to catch and the risk is probably less than 1 in 300 (if the person is not on treatment).<\/p>\n<p>If the HIV positive person has an undetectable viral load on treatment, this small risk becomes zero.<\/p>\n<p>in the same way that not every time you have unprotected sex with a woman does she become pregnant. You were just lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Please see Q1 and Q5 at this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: this answer was modified in January 2018 to include a new link. i-Base no longer answers individual questions about testing and risk.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to have sex with a HIV positive person and not get infected? <\/p>\n<p>I had unprotected sex with a woman last year in September and in November she tested positive and she is on treatment now. I went for my an ELISA 4th generation test in February and it was negative. <\/p>\n<p>I went again after a week, still negative. The woman is 100% sure that I was the last person she slept with before her test, hence why I am asking this question. Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3472","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\/3472","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=3472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24572,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3472\/revisions\/24572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}