{"id":19328,"date":"2019-02-21T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19328"},"modified":"2019-02-21T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:47:45","slug":"eliminating-hiv-in-black-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/eliminating-hiv-in-black-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating HIV in Black Communities"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/blogs\/cache\/file\/DDAFACFD-CA6B-436B-B31CA996F35D43BA_source.jpg?w=590&amp;h=800&amp;F95BE392-847A-415D-AC2B81838353CC8C\" alt=\"Eliminating HIV in Black Communities\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiv.gov\/federal-response\/ending-the-hiv-epidemic\/overview\">ambitious plan<\/a>\u00a0President Donald Trump announced in his State of The Union speech to eliminate new diagnoses of HIV and AIDS in the United States by 2030 is feasible\u2014but it fails to address the widespread prevention efforts necessary in black communities.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal includes funding existing prevention programs and providing HIV prevention medication to those at highest risk in \u201chot spots\u201d across the U.S. and Puerto Rico; identifying where the virus is spreading in real time and deploying resources to those areas; and creating an HIV HealthForce to support these efforts nationwide. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/eliminating-hiv-in-black-communities\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fhealth-and-medicine+%28Topic%3A+Health%29\">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>An\u00a0ambitious plan\u00a0President Donald Trump announced in his State of The Union speech to eliminate new diagnoses of HIV and AIDS in the&#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-19328","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\/19328","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=19328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}