{"id":19021,"date":"2019-02-09T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19021"},"modified":"2019-02-09T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T05:48:10","slug":"mtn-launches-new-study-to-empower-teen-girls-with-choices-in-hiv-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/mtn-launches-new-study-to-empower-teen-girls-with-choices-in-hiv-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches new study to empower teen girls with choices in HIV prevention"},"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><p>AIDS is already the leading cause of death among girls and young women in much of Africa, and matters could only get worse, given that for every day that passes, 1,000 more girls ages 15 to 24 are likely to become infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Ensuring that women and girls can have access to and benefit from safe and effective methods of prevention is imperative, say researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) who have launched a new study called REACH and enrolled its first participant.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20190208\/MTN-launches-new-study-to-empower-teen-girls-with-choices-in-HIV-prevention.aspx\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>AIDS is already the leading cause of death among girls and young women in much of Africa, and matters could only get&#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-19021","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\/19021","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=19021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}