{"id":7,"date":"2007-03-24T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=7"},"modified":"2018-01-17T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:31:21","slug":"can-an-hiv-positive-man-still-have-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/7","title":{"rendered":"Can an HIV positive man still have children?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for your question which is very easy to answer.<\/p>\n

The simple answer is a definite “yes” as being on modern HIV treatment also protects your partner.<\/p>\n

As long as viral load is undetectable, the risk of transmission becomes zero. This means that your partner will not be at risk and the baby will be negative too.<\/p>\n

The risk of a baby having HIV is only directly related to the HIV status of the mother, not the father.<\/p>\n

So if your partner is also HIV positive, this is how you can have an HIV negative baby.<\/p>\n

The i-Base guide to HIV, Pregnancy and Women’s Health<\/a> includes a chapter on planning pregnancies and is available online or in print.<\/p>\n

Note: This answer was last updated in January 2018 from an original post from March 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can an HIV positive man still have children? If so, what is the risk to mother and child?<\/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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}