{"id":729,"date":"2008-12-20T20:54:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=729"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:26","slug":"can-we-have-have-an-hiv-negative-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/729","title":{"rendered":"Can we have have an HIV negative baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: since this question was posted new guidelines have recommended that HIV positive woman can use efavirenz when trying to conceive and during pregnancy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, many couples where one or both partners are HIV positive are starting families and having children.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the baby not being HIV positive is that the mother needs to use combination therapy to make sure that her viral load is undetectable when the baby is born.<\/p>\n<p>You can conceive the baby in a normal way and have a natural birth, but there are a few things you need to be carfeul with, so your doctor needs to know you are planning a family so s\/he can help you access the right services.<\/p>\n<p>If your wife is currently on treatment, she should not use the HIV drug efavirenz (Sustiva) while conceiving and during the first 3 months of the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>An i-Base booklet deals with this in detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can order a free print copy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/forms\/order.php?women=true\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me and my wife are both HIV-positive.<\/p>\n<p>Can we have an HIV-negitive baby in a normal way?<\/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-729","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\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}