{"id":4291,"date":"2011-06-28T16:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4291"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:48","slug":"can-i-used-lamzid-azt3tc-to-reduce-the-risk-of-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4291","title":{"rendered":"Can I used Lamzid (AZT\/3TC) to reduce the risk of infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please do NOT use Lamzid in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, there is no evidence that it will protect you from catching HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, there are risks from you taking these meds. If you have hepatitis B or catch hepatitis B taking the 3TC in Lamzid could cause liver problems if you are stopping and starting the drug. If you were unlucky enough to catch HIV, your use of Lamzid is likely to make you resistant to 3TC which could then affect both you and your partners future treatment options (if you passed that resistance back to your partner).<\/p>\n<p>Is your partner on treatment? If and when this happens, this reduce the risk of transmitting HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Using a condom is still the most effective way to do this though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dating a person who is HIV positive and I&#8217;m HIV negative. Is it good for me to use Aspen&#8217;s Lamzid when we have sex?<\/p>\n<p>Will it cause a problem as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-reinfection-with-hiv","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","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=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24864,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/24864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}