{"id":949,"date":"2009-11-18T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=949"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:13","slug":"do-hiv-positive-pregnant-women-have-to-have-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/949","title":{"rendered":"Do HIV-positive pregnant women have to have an abortion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>The information you have been given is NOT true.<\/p>\n<p>HIV-positive women can have children and using HIV drugs during pregnancy dramatically reduces the chance that the baby will have HIV. This risk becomes less than 1% when the pregnancy is managed wel and the mother has an undetectable viral load during labour.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count and viral load should be checked regularly for your own health.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that you have these checked again now, so that you and your doctor cna decide when to start ARV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Please look through the information in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/index.html\">HIV and pregnancy guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may need to find a hospital that has more experience with HIV-positive patients. Also, I do not know about which drugs are available in Pakistan, but I am happy to answer any questions you have either online or privately.<\/p>\n<p>If you and your partner want to have children this should be a very happy and exciting time for you. You need your doctor to be supportive or to try to find an alternative doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working as nurse in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>I tested positive and later got married to an HIV-positive man and now I am pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors said that I need to check my viral load and CD4 to continue my pregnancy. They said that if they are bad I need abortion.<\/p>\n<p>I am confused please give suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-pregnancy","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","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=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}