{"id":19230,"date":"2019-02-16T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19230"},"modified":"2019-02-16T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:43:48","slug":"among-injection-drug-users-hiv-more-prevalent-in-women-than-men-show-citation-february-14-2019-add-topic-to-email-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/among-injection-drug-users-hiv-more-prevalent-in-women-than-men-show-citation-february-14-2019-add-topic-to-email-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Among injection drug users, HIV more prevalent in women than men Show Citation February 14, 2019  Add Topic To Email Alerts"},"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=\"mug left\">\n<div style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/m2.healio.com\/~\/media\/slack-news\/infectious-disease\/mugs\/l\/leung_janni_2019_80x106.jpg\" alt=\"Janni Leung, PhD\" width=\"193\" height=\"253\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enter a caption<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"name\" style=\"text-align:right;\"><strong>Janni Leung<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Study findings showed a higher prevalence of HIV among women who inject drugs compared with men, and researchers recommended developing gender-sensitive harm reduction services.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 20% of an estimated 15.6 million people who injected drugs (PWID) last year were women. Researchers said <a id=\"rId10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/infectious-disease\/hiv-aids\/news\/in-the-journals\/%7b51bb1881-bf1b-490b-88eb-621e7eec8dc4%7d\/food-insecurity-associated-with-inflammation-in-us-women-with-hiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women may be at an elevated risk for bloodborne viruses<\/a> because of stigma, marginalization and discrimination \u2014 common experiences among all PWID that can be \u201cparticularly salient for women.\u201d Read More<\/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>Janni Leung &nbsp; Study findings showed a higher prevalence of HIV among women who inject drugs compared with men, and researchers recommended&#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-19230","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\/19230","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=19230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}