{"id":508,"date":"2008-07-03T13:10:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T12:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=508"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:23","slug":"government-confidentiality-volunteering-for-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/508","title":{"rendered":"Government, confidentiality, volunteering for trials&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Where do you live? Without knowing the country it is difficult to comment on either government policies on confidentiality or on access to care.<\/p>\n<p>Both these things vary so much depending on which part of the world you live in.<\/p>\n<p>HIV support organisations are usually very careful with confidentiality and your doctor or testing centre should be able to direct you to an organisation close to where you live.<\/p>\n<p>Because you are only recently infected, you may not need treatment for many years.<\/p>\n<p>If and when you do need treatment, your doctor should be able to talk about whether a research study is appropriate for you, or whether is is better to use regular treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 21 years old and have been infected less than 1 year.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t let the government know i have HIV because it will ruin my future, they will not allow me to work like normal..<\/p>\n<p>How much is the treatment for HIV? Is it expensive? Can I secretly get the HIV drugs besides from the CDC? If i get the drug from hospital will they inform the government?<\/p>\n<p>Is there any association or scientist that needs HIV-positive patients for research or testing of new drugs? I willing to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-clinical-trials","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}