{"id":19249,"date":"2019-02-17T14:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:01:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:01:19","slug":"secret-suffering-of-ceausescus-babies-the-plight-of-hiv-positive-orphans-in-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/17\/secret-suffering-of-ceausescus-babies-the-plight-of-hiv-positive-orphans-in-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret suffering of Ceausescu\u2019s babies: The plight of HIV-positive orphans in Romania"},"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 id=\"top-container-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"top-container image\">\n<div class=\"top-container-inner \">\n<div class=\"hero-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero-wrapper-inner\">\n<figure class=\"hero hero-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" title=\"Thousands of babies were killed in the largest outbreak of non-inherited Aids among children anywhere in the world\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2019\/02\/06\/10\/romanian-babies-3.jpg?w968\" alt=\"Thousands of babies were killed in the largest outbreak of non-inherited Aids among children anywhere in the world\" width=\"1240\" height=\"930\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">Thousands of babies were killed in the largest outbreak of non-inherited Aids among children anywhere in the world <span class=\"copyright\"> ( Alamy ) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"main\">\n<div class=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"share-bar\">\n<div class=\"inner-share-bar\">\n<div class=\"placeholder-text amp-hidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" role=\"list\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-content limited-access\">\n<div class=\"body-content\">\n<p><em><span class=\"first-letter\">I<\/span>n December 1989, immediately after the fall of communism, the images of starving, naked and sick children found in overcrowded Romanian orphanages shocked the world. In the same month, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad, just moments\u00a0after a brief\u00a0trial that found them guilty of genocide, subversion of state power, destruction of public property and theft.<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/nicolae-ceausescu-hiv-aids-orphans-romania-revolution-pages-from-history-archive-a8764036.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Thousands of babies were killed in the largest outbreak of non-inherited Aids among children anywhere in the world ( Alamy ) In&#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-19249","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\/19249","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=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}