{"id":5625,"date":"2012-01-10T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:47","slug":"can-i-have-unprotected-sex-with-my-positive-partner-without-being-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5625","title":{"rendered":"Can I have unprotected sex with my positive partner without being infected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">I&#8217;m very sorry to hear  about your girlfriend&#8217;s situation and and I can understand that you  might be feeling slightly confused. \u00a0There are many couples who are in  similar situation as both of you and this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/206\">link<\/a> below will explain most  of your queries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is your girlfriend on treatment at the moment? \u00a0Is she  receiving any prenatal care from her local hospital? \u00a0She also might  want to consider getting support from her local support group or a  counsellor, which can help her to come to terms living with HIV. She  will be able to gain and share experiences with others who are in the  similar situation as her, rather than having to deal with it in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>You too might want to consider getting support for yourself, this will  help you to understand living with HIV and also give additional support  to your girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>If you do continue to have unprotected sex, then the chance of you being  infected increases. \u00a0So far you have been very lucky. \u00a0It is advisable  that you use protection (condom) during sex in order to minimise the  chance of being infected.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risk-hiv-status\">link<\/a> for more information on sero-different couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am  28 years old and I recently tested negative.  My girlfried is pregnant, her results come back positive.  How is this likely?  Should I continue having unprotected sex with her?  I am confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24846,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/24846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}