Hello, thank-you for your question. And congratulations on your pregnancy!<\/p>\n
Many women who are pregnant or trying to conceive contact us to ask about efavirenz.<\/p>\n
Many years\u00a0ago, efavirenz was not recommended\u00a0during pregnancy.<\/p>\n
Much more recent data has shown that these concerns are no longer important.<\/p>\n
Many women have safely become pregnant when they are already taking ARVs, including\u00a0efavirenz (or Atripla which contains efavirenz).<\/p>\n
UK guidelines \u00a0recommend that efavirenz can continue to be used by women who want to become pregnancy. They also recommend that efavirenz can be used by during pregnancy.<\/p>\n
You also said that you are concerned about this being your first pregnancy at 43. I\u2019m not a maternity expert and I can\u2019t give you much advice about this. It\u2019s important to talk to your doctor or midwife about your concerns. Many women who become pregnant in their late 30s and early 40s have perfectly healthy pregnancies and babies. It\u2019s important to get advice from your healthcare team to help make your pregnancy as healthy as possible.<\/p>\n
Our guide to HIV, pregnancy and women\u2019s health is available to read online or to download. The guide contains information about many issues around pregnancy and HIV, including mother to child transmission; prenatal care and delivery choices. You can access it at this link: HIV, pregnancy and women’s health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found out I was pregnant when already on Atripla and my concerns were what I had read up on efavirenz (initially). I\u2019m 43 and this is my first pregnancy, and this latter issue is now more worrisome than the previous one. Your input, please!?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7007","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\/7007","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=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}