{"id":6435,"date":"2012-03-26T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T13:13:53","slug":"my-boyfriend-is-hiv-positive-can-i-get-pregnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6435","title":{"rendered":"My boyfriend is HIV positive, can I get pregnant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial\">Thank-you for your question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to hear that your relationship is going well and that you want to have children together.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of couples have one person that is positive and the other negative. This is sometimes called being in a serodifferent or serodiscordant couple.<\/p>\n<p>You can reduce your risk down to almost zero. The reason that the risk is not zero is because scientifically you can not prove that something in the future can never happen. The best is to say it becomes very unlikely for you to catch HIV.<\/p>\n<p>This is an outline of how to reduce your risk from natural conception. You need to do all of the following, except the PrEP if your doctor does not think this necessary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check that you are both able to have a baby. This service is usually easy to access at a fertility clinic.<\/li>\n<li>You should also both have a check up to make sure you don&#8217;t have an STI \u2013 this is also for the baby\u2019s health.<\/li>\n<li>Your partner will need to be on HIV treatment. He will need to have an undetectable viral load for at least six months. In heterosexual studies this shows the risk of transmission to drop to close to zero.<\/li>\n<li>The fertility clinic can also help you know when during each month you are most likely to be able to conceive.<\/li>\n<li>Talk to your doctor or your partner\u2019s doctor so they know this and can help. This doctor may be able to give you an additional safety medicine called Truvada. This contains two anti HIV meds that you could take the day before to have sex and an hour or two afterwards. This is called PrEP, although many doctors think this additional safety is not needed.<\/li>\n<li>Then, only during the day or two when you are most fertile.<\/li>\n<li>Remember to use condoms again at all other times, and especially during pregnancy when your risk to catch HIV increases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several years ago people used to a process called \u2018sperm washing\u2019. This is when a sample of semen is treated to remove HIV from the fluid that the sperm is in. It is only the fluid that is infectious. As well as making conception very medical, the conception rate is lower \u2013 less than 15% I think. It can be quite expensive and it\u2019s not available everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/\">i-Base guide to HIV and pregnancy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello  everyone I am a 26 year old woman.  My boyfriend is  HIV  positive.  We have lived together  for  one  year, having  protective sex .<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible  to  have  a  child  without  being affected? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}