{"id":941,"date":"2009-11-10T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=941"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:13","slug":"if-we-are-both-hiv-positive-how-can-we-have-a-baby-that-is-not-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/941","title":{"rendered":"If we are both HIV-positive, how can we have a baby that is not infected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is that if you are both HIV-positive, then having a baby is in many ways less complicated than if either of you was HIV-negative.<\/p>\n<p>Use of HIV treatment will depend on your partners current health, but generally, by both using HIV treatment through pregnancy and having an undetectable viral load at delivery, this should mean that there is a 99% chance that the baby will not become infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>For more details see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/index.html\">HIV and pregnancy guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/index.php?s=baby\">online questions and answers<\/a> may also be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n<p>Simon<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; If you could spare a couple of minutes to answer anonymously a few questions about this information service at the following link, it would really help us see the service is used:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.i-base.info\/questions\/qasurvey.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi The short answer is that if you are both HIV-positive, then having a baby is in many ways less complicated than if either of you was HIV-negative. Use of HIV treatment will depend on your partners current health, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}