{"id":857,"date":"2009-06-23T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=857"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:18","slug":"shall-i-wait-for-my-cd4-count-to-rise-before-i-repeat-the-hep-b-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/857","title":{"rendered":"Shall I wait for my CD4 count to rise, before I repeat the Hep B vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 in the UK Hep B was found in 6-10% of the HIV-positive people (Rockstroh J, Konopnicki D, Soriano V et al; Eurosida). However, recently there are trends of increase. In particular risk are the groups of injecting drug users and gay men.<\/p>\n<p>The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is transmitted through sexual intercourse, blood-blood contact and infected body ?uids, and vertically from mother to child. The incubation period of hepatitis B is usually 90 days (range 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How important it is to get an Hep B vaccine? I was advised to do the vaccine when I was diagnosed 3 years ago and after the 3 jabs and one extra booster the level of protection is only 13%. My CD4 is 210 and my doctor wants to change vaccine and start all over again. Is it true that the lower the CD4, the harder it is to get a full protection? Should I wait to repeat the vaccine until my CD4 count is higher? Please advise and thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-complications-and-coinfections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}