{"id":6186,"date":"2012-03-01T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","slug":"is-my-child-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6186","title":{"rendered":"Is my child HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All babies born to HIV positive mothers will test HIV-positive with an HIV antibody test at first because they share their mother&#8217;s antibodies and<br \/>\nimmune system.<\/p>\n<p>If the baby does not have HIV, then the mother&#8217;s antibodies will slowly disappear, but this may take as long as 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>In your question you mention that your baby was tested using the HIV PCR DNA test. This is the best test for babies. In the UK, babies are tested the<br \/>\nday they are born, and then when they are six weeks and three months old.<\/p>\n<p>If these tests are negative and you did\u00a0 not breastfeed the baby &#8211; as it is in your case &#8211; then your baby is not HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed information on the test, please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/hiv-negative\">link<\/a> to our guide on HIV, pregnancy and women&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>With best wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is my child HIV positive?<\/p>\n<p>I am an HIV positive mother. I was on ARVs throughout my 9 month term, gave birth via C-section, did not breastfeed and my baby was on AZT for 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>At 6 weeks my baby underwent a HIV PCR DNA test and he was tested negative.<\/p>\n<p>Our uncertainty stems from a normal or fast HIV test which produces a result in 30min. Maybe a litmus test?<\/p>\n<p>We have just run another HIV PCR DNA test and await the results with great trepidation.<\/p>\n<p>Offer me some hope please?<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks in anticipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186","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=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24531,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions\/24531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}