Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy.<\/p>\n
In response to your first question, pregnancy does not affect HIV test results.<\/p>\n
The reason you have tested negative on a number of occasions and remain uninfected, could be down to luck. There are many couples in your situation where one partner remains uninfected even though they have sex without using condoms for years.<\/p>\n
Can I ask if your wife is on treatment, and if she is, what her viral load is? This is because, studies have shown that if the positive partner in a relationship is on treatment and has an undetectable viral load, it reduces their risk of transmitting HIV to their partner. However, even though the risk is low, there is still some risk, and as such the recommendation is to use condoms.<\/p>\n
The other reason I ask whether your wife is on treatment is because, it is recommended that she should be on treatment as she is pregnant. This is important because she needs to have an undetectable viral load by the time she delivers. An undetectable viral load at the time of delivery is the best way to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV to the baby. Please follow this link<\/a> to our guide on HIV, pregnancy and women’s health.<\/p>\n Best wishes with the rest of the pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just found out that pregnancy can cause false positive results.<\/p>\n How true is that?<\/p>\n The reason I am asking is because I just found out that my wife is HIV positive and pregnant. We have been together for 7 years now and I have tested more than once and yet the results for me are still negative.<\/p>\n How is this possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24854,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions\/24854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}