{"id":640,"date":"2008-10-23T15:54:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=640"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:31","slug":"will-my-baby-have-hiv-if-we-do-not-go-for-sperm-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/640","title":{"rendered":"Will my baby have HIV if we do not go for sperm washing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No.<\/p>\n

The single and most important factor whether the baby will have HIV or not is the viral load of the mother, especially during the labour. The father’s HIV-status or the way you conceive do not play any role here.<\/p>\n

Your doctor may have recommended sperm-washing if your partner has a viral strain that is different than yours or has drug resistance with a detectable viral load.<\/p>\n

This is because of a low risk that you could get reinfected with a virus that may be more difficult to treat in the future.<\/p>\n

If, however, your partner has been undetectable in the last 6 months, is adherent to his therapy and neither of you has any sexually transmitted disease, apart from HIV, then most couples would just practise natural conception without any worry.<\/p>\n

All the different aspects of pregnancy while living with HIV are very well explained in the i-Base booklet HIV, pregnancy and women’s health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take care and please be in touch if you need any further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am HIV+ and so is my partner. I want to have a baby, but I heard that you have to do sperm washing. If I choose not to do this, will the baby have HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}