{"id":9898,"date":"2018-01-16T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","slug":"i-had-sex-with-my-positive-girlfriend-is-there-any-chance-i-did-not-get-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9898","title":{"rendered":"A condom burst with my positive girlfriend. Will I have HIV now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question &#8211; and the quick answer is that you are much more likely to still be negative. Catching HIV from one broken condom is a very low risk.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of transmission is also lower if your girlfriend is on treatment. She should also have had something called a viral load test. Someones viral load tells you how much virus is in their bloodstreat. The lower this is the lower the risk of transmission is.<\/p>\n<p>If your partner is not on treatment the risk of transmission is about 1 in 500.<\/p>\n<p>If she is on treatment and has an undetectable viral load the risk becomes zero.\u00a0This is because when viral load is this low, transmission doesn&#8217;t occur.<\/p>\n<p>All of this means that you are more likely to be negative than positive.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a test is still a good idea as a routine part of your own sexual health check up.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about HIV transmission <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to Q9 at this link have more information about the need for condoms when viral load is undetectable.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had sex  with my girlfriend and the condom burst while i was inside her. She sent me an SMS a week later and told me she is HIV positive. I didn&#8217;t ejaculate inside her. I want to know if there is any chance i did not get infected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24223,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/24223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}