{"id":4519,"date":"2011-08-22T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2011-08-22T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:12:02","slug":"do-i-continue-arvs-after-my-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4519","title":{"rendered":"Do I continue ARVs after my pregnancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Great news about your pregnancy &#8211; and great that you were diagnosed in time to start treatment. The ARVs will dramaticially reduce the risk of your baby catching HIV.<\/p>\n<p>All treatment is individualised. Whether ot not you continue treatment after the pregnancy will depend on many things.<\/p>\n<p>This includes your CD4 count when you started treatment, how you feel about continuing treatment, and sometimes on the guidelines for the country where you live.<\/p>\n<p>Diarrhoea is a common side effects of the Aluvia and other meds but will not affect the health of your baby.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck for the rest of your pregnancy. See also this guide about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/\">HIV, women&#8217;s health and pregnancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys. I am hiv +  and 37 weeks pregnant. I am so scared as I don&#8217;t know what to expect. I am currently taking aspen lamzid (AZT\/3TC) and Aluvia (lopinavir\/r), will I be required to continue with the medication after my baby is born?<\/p>\n<p>My cd4 is 480 and I only started taking medication after I found out that I was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>The med was giving me diarhea in the beginning, will this affect my baby or will the med do the same to my infant? Please help as am worried. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519","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=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}