{"id":5628,"date":"2012-01-10T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:47:31","slug":"should-i-stop-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5628","title":{"rendered":"Should I stop PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to comment without having the exact details or indeed<br \/>\nknowing which of the tests are accurate.<\/p>\n<p>If however, the patient is HIV negative, then there is no need for you to<br \/>\ntake PEP.<\/p>\n<p>As regards stopping PEP, this is a decision only you can make once you have<br \/>\ndiscussed further with your clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare workers usually have PEP guidelines in every country. You can ask your hospital, union or professional orgnaisation about these.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a needle stick injury on the 7th of January. A test using the first response kit on the patient&#8217;s blood was positive. I was hence enrolled on PEP an hour after the incidence because I tested negative.<\/p>\n<p>An Elisa and determine test later showed a negative result on the patient&#8217;s sample.<\/p>\n<p>I want to find out if I can stop the PEP.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-peppepse","category-stopping-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","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=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23987,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions\/23987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}