{"id":3658,"date":"2011-02-17T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2011-02-17T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:32:26","slug":"i-am-a-hiv-positive-male-can-i-ever-have-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3658","title":{"rendered":"I am a HIV positive man &#8211; can I ever have a child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Being HIV positive should not stop you having children. It is possible to have HIV negative children and to conceive naturally without infecting the mother of this child, if she is also negative. You would have to be stable on HIV treatment with an undetectable viral load. Both partners should be without STIs and unprotected sex should happen when the woman is ovulating. This will increase the chances of the woman getting pregnant without becoming positive herself.<\/p>\n<p>Many discordant couples (where one person is positive and the other negative) are managing to conceive naturally and have negative children whilst not infecting each other.\u00a0For more information on how to do this please follow this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/man-hiv-positive\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also find it useful to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/swiss-statement\">Swiss Statement <\/a>. This\u00a0describes the transmission risk for someone on stable HIV treatment as \u201cnegligible\u201d and \u201csimilar to risks of daily life\u201d. It is impossible to put a percentage risk on this.<\/p>\n<p>When you decide you are ready for a child you should contact your doctor and speak to them about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might be a stupid question, but just asking. I am a HIV positive male. Will I ever be able to become father to a healthy child? Will I be able to have a baby using natural conception? Is my sperm defective? :-(<\/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-3658","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\/3658","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=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}