{"id":668,"date":"2008-11-22T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=668"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:09","slug":"why-is-my-boyfriend-taking-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/668","title":{"rendered":"Why is my boyfriend taking ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PEP (Post-exposure prophylaxis) lasts for a month-40 days. Your boyfriend will be taking the ARVs for that period to avoid getting infected. The percentage of people who have been infected after an exposure in a medical establishment is really tiny.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment your boyfriend is most probably not HIV-positive, but still it is better to avoid unprotected sex (just in case) until he receives the &#8216;all clear&#8217; test result.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boyfriend is a medical doctor, who had a HIV exposure from an HIV positive patient (possibly a needle sting). Now he is taking some antiretroviral tablets.<br \/>\nIs he HIV infected now? How long will he have to take this treatment? Please clarify. I&#8217;m confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24356,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/24356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}