{"id":19017,"date":"2019-02-09T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19017"},"modified":"2019-02-09T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:29:12","slug":"to-halt-hiv-advocates-push-for-prep-outreach-to-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/to-halt-hiv-advocates-push-for-prep-outreach-to-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"To Halt HIV, Advocates Push For PrEP Outreach To Black Women"},"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\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"imagewrap\">\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/02\/05\/atlanta-prep-1_custom-38a7f0175af48105a446813812cf23848b281efc-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rasheeta Chandler is a researcher at Emory University, who specializes in women&#8217;s sexual and reproductive health. In a small recent study, Chandler learned that 67 percent of college-age black women had never heard of the HIV prevention drug PrEP.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"enlarge-options\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit-caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption\" aria-label=\"Image caption\">\n<p>In 2013, not quite a year after the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Truvada for HIV prevention, a coalition of 50 experts in HIV and women&#8217;s health\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avac.org\/sites\/default\/files\/u44\/Women_and_PrEP_Release_Final_March2013.pdf\">called on U.S. public health agencies<\/a>\u00a0to promote the pill and its approach, called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, explicitly to women.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/In 2013, not quite a year after the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Truvada for HIV prevention, a coalition of 50 experts in HIV and women's health called on U.S. public health agencies to promote the pill and its approach, called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, explicitly to women.\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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>In 2013, not quite a year after the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Truvada for HIV prevention, a coalition of&#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":{"0":"post-19017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017","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=19017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}