{"id":19005,"date":"2019-02-07T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19005"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:54:49","slug":"glimmers-of-hope-moving-towards-better-hiv-and-tb-treatment-in-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/glimmers-of-hope-moving-towards-better-hiv-and-tb-treatment-in-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimmers of hope: moving towards better HIV and TB treatment in eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Towards solving the world\u2019s last out of control HIV epidemic<\/p>\n<div class=\"start-gallery\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Vinay Saldanha, UNAIDS Regional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, told the meeting that 1.4 million people live with HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia, 75% of them in Russia. HIV diagnoses in the region increased by 60% between 2010 and 2016 and 34,000 people died of AIDS-related conditions last year.<\/p>\n<p>However there are signs that new diagnoses may have flattened off \u2013 even in Russia \u2013 and TB diagnoses have declined regionally. HIV diagnoses in eastern Europe are now overwhelmingly among the over-30s and the biggest increase has been among the over-40s, indicating an ageing epidemic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aidsmap.com\/page\/3431214\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Towards solving the world\u2019s last out of control HIV epidemic Vinay Saldanha, UNAIDS Regional director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, told&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hiv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}