{"id":3595,"date":"2018-01-07T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2018-02-05T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:31:45","slug":"i-am-hiv-positive-and-pregnant-what-are-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3595","title":{"rendered":"I am HIV positive and pregnant, what are the risks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on the pregnancy and I am sorry if this is causing problems with your husband.<\/p>\n<p>Is he upset because he is worried about the child becoming positive? Or because he is worried about your health? Or something else?<\/p>\n<p>Also, are you already taking HIV treatment (ART)? this is because ART is good for both you and your baby&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>Many HIV positive women all over the world give birth to healthy negative children using ART. There is no medical reason stopping you from having this baby if you decide you want to continue with the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Also, for your health, HIV positive women are not usually at any further risk of pregnancy-related complications than negative women.\u00a0As far as the HIV is concerned, most women have a small drop in their CD4 count of about 50, but this goes up again once the baby is born. For more information on this please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/pregnancy-and-hiv\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For general information about HIV, Pregnancy and Women&#8217;s Health please \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/home\/hiv-and-pregnancy-guide\/\">see this i-Base guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: this answer was updated in January 2018 from a question first posted in January 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am 32, married and have two children. I am HIV positive and so is my husband. I recently discovered I am pregnant but my husband is furious with me, and has advised me to go for an abortion. I am now debating on what to do as I do not want to go through a pregnancy without the support of my husband. What are the risks in pregnancy when HIV positive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","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=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}