{"id":742,"date":"2009-01-05T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=742"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:25","slug":"is-my-future-baby-at-risk-of-infection-because-i-am-not-on-treatment-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/742","title":{"rendered":"Is my future baby at risk of infection because I am not on treatment now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently, the guidelines in the UK say that you should start HIV treatment when your CD4 count is near 350 and the SA guidelines say&lt;200. According to our guidelines, you need treatment for your own HIV now, in addition to preventing transmission to your baby. It is a good idea to discuss this with your doctor. Further delay in starting treatment may decrease your chances for better health in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There is very detailed information about the different options <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some vitamins and supplements are a good thing when you are pregnant, but they will not have any effect on HIV or prevention of infection, but may very well improve your general condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My CD4 count was over 200 and I was told I will start my PMTCT medication at 7 months of pregnancy. Is my baby at greater risk of being infected because I am not taking treatment? At the moment I&#8217;m taking vitamin supplements since month 3 of pregnancy. Will they help me somehow? I&#8217;m in the 5th month now.<\/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-742","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\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}