{"id":19300,"date":"2019-02-20T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:08:23","slug":"african-american-women-with-hiv-often-overlooked-under-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/african-american-women-with-hiv-often-overlooked-under-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American women with HIV often overlooked, under-supported"},"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><section id=\"topbar\">\n<div class=\"wrapper clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div id=\"outer\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"caption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/259832\/original\/file-20190219-43273-8bo60r.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" \/>Toya Tolson of Prince George\u2019s County suffered trauma and abuse as a child only to battle addiction as an adult. She is one of more than 100,000 African American women who are aging with HIV.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"source\">Aamir Khuller<\/span>,\u00a0<a class=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on African-American communities.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially true among women;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/pdf\/library\/reports\/surveillance\/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2017-vol-29.pdf\">60 percent of newly diagnosed cases<\/a>\u00a0of HIV in women in 2017 were African-American. Yet, African-American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2004\/10\/black-women-and-aids.html\">women\u2019s voices are notoriously absent<\/a>\u00a0from the national discourse on HIV. <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/african-american-women-with-hiv-often-overlooked-under-supported-109859\">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>Toya Tolson of Prince George\u2019s County suffered trauma and abuse as a child only to battle addiction as an adult. She is&#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-19300","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\/19300","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=19300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}