{"id":9508,"date":"2023-03-28T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:36:32","slug":"can-i-avoid-getting-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9508","title":{"rendered":"Can I avoid getting TB?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question and it is good that you are taking care of your health.<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways that TB could be a risk and thee will vary depending on where you live and your medical history. For example, this risk from TB is higher if you have a low CD4 count (below 200).<\/p>\n<p>One risk comes from latent TB, which you might have caught as a child but that is not currently active. The risk of latent TB reactivating is much higher in HIV positive compared to HIV negative people.<\/p>\n<p>The other risk is if you haven&#8217;t previously had TB and you catch it for the first time now.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about your history and current risks, and whether a short course of antibiotics could protect you against TB now. This is called TB prophylaxis &#8211; to prevent an infection.<\/p>\n<p>There is <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/cd4-count-and-risk-of-illness\">more information about how CD4 counts are related to your risk of getting ill here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, or need any further information.<\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>TB and HIV coinfection (from the i-Base training manual)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK (BHIVA) guidelines on HIV and TB coinfection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This question from 2013 was updated in March 2023,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can I do to stop me from getting TB because I am HIV+?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21780,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}