Hi,<\/p>\n
Thanks for your email. I’m sorry to hear about your recent diagnosis. Finding out that you are HIV+ during pregnancy is very difficult. Do you have any support to help you deal with this?<\/p>\n
Your doctor has given you good advice about starting treatment as this will help protect your baby from being infected with HIV.<\/p>\n
Please see this similar question for more information about HIV, pregnancy and breastfeeding<\/a>.<\/p>\n Because you say you are in South Africa it is likely that you will be offered to continue with ARVs and to breastfeed for the first 6 months- as recommended by the WHO guidelines, explained in the link above. There is also more information in our pregnancy guide.<\/a><\/p>\n Please let me know if you have any questions or need any further information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just found out that I am HIV positive and 7 months pregnant, my doctor has recommended I start treatment, is it possible to still give my breast milk to my baby without endangering her life .<\/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-9370","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\/9370","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=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}