{"id":362,"date":"2008-03-31T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=362"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","slug":"can-i-get-circumcised-if-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/362","title":{"rendered":"Can I get circumcised if I am HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being HIV positive shouldn&#8217;t stop you getting circumcised if you want to.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get circumcised, this may reduce the risk of some sexually transmitted infections to either yourself or your partners.<\/p>\n<p>However, it will not reduce the risk of you passing HIV to your sexual partners.<br \/>\nIf you decide to get circumcised, then make sure you do NOT have sex until the surgery has completely healed. One study showed that having sex too early after the operation increased the risk of a partner catching HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being HIV positive shouldn&#8217;t stop you getting circumcised if you want to. If you want to get circumcised, this may reduce the risk of some sexually transmitted infections to either yourself or your partners. However, it will not reduce the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24680,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/24680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}