{"id":19037,"date":"2019-02-09T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19037"},"modified":"2019-02-09T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T07:29:48","slug":"trumps-hiv-plan-met-with-both-cautious-optimism-flat-out-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/trumps-hiv-plan-met-with-both-cautious-optimism-flat-out-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s HIV plan met with both cautious optimism, flat-out skepticism"},"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=\"heroMediaContainer___a869h\">\n<figure class=\"hero___1ex_0\">\n<div style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2019_06\/2745381\/190207-hiv-test-los-angeles-ew-1128a_053029668bd2db49a2a32b197b6b7fcc.fit-2000w.jpg\" alt=\"LOS ANGELES, CA -MARCH 18, 2014: Medical Assistant Hector Reyes administers an HIV blood test to pat\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"mr3\">Medical Assistant Hector Reyes administers an HIV blood test to a patient at St. John&#8217;s Well Child and Family Center on March 18, 2014 in Los <\/span><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#4b4f53;cursor:text;font-family:'Noto Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.2px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\">Angeles<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement Tuesday of a new federal initiative to \u201celiminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years&#8221; has sparked both cautious optimism and flat-out skepticism from experts and advocates.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiv.gov\/federal-response\/ending-the-hiv-epidemic\/overview\">an overview released by the Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>, the proposal overhauls the federal government\u2019s HIV\/AIDS plan and brings it more closely in line with cutting-edge models pioneered in places like New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. HIV diagnoses there have fallen sharply, thanks to well-funded public health initiatives that quickly link HIV-positive people to treatment and refer at-risk individuals to take PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, to prevent them from being infected with HIV.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/trump-s-hiv-plan-met-both-cautious-optimism-flat-out-n969111\">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>President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement Tuesday of a new federal initiative to \u201celiminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years&#8221;&#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-19037","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\/19037","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=19037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}