{"id":19366,"date":"2019-02-23T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T10:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19366"},"modified":"2019-02-23T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T10:36:48","slug":"major-shift-in-hiv-war-as-kenyans-now-top-users-of-prevention-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/major-shift-in-hiv-war-as-kenyans-now-top-users-of-prevention-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Major shift in HIV war as Kenyans now top users of prevention pill"},"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:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/images\/friday\/xfqdqdwnovcp7lkz5c705ba7046d1.jpg.pagespeed.ic.8JzS1apU94.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>About 54,000\u00a0Kenyans\u00a0are using the daily\u00a0HIV\u00a0prevention\u00a0pill today up from 9,000 a year ago. This is the second highest use in the world after US, which has 197,000\u00a0users\u00a0in a population of 325 million. This is a\u00a0major\u00a0jump from just about 9,000 early last year, to 27,000 in November and 54,000\u00a0now. The\u00a0pill\u00a0known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and taken daily by\u00a0HIV\u00a0negative people to protect them against infection was officially launched in Kenya in 2017.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/About 54,000 Kenyans are using the daily HIV prevention pill today up from 9,000 a year ago. This is the second highest use in the world after US, which has 197,000 users in a population of 325 million. This is a major jump from just about 9,000 early last year, to 27,000 in November and 54,000 now. The pill known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and taken daily by HIV negative people to protect them against infection was officially launched in Kenya in 2017.\">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>About 54,000\u00a0Kenyans\u00a0are using the daily\u00a0HIV\u00a0prevention\u00a0pill today up from 9,000 a year ago. This is the second highest use in the world after&#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-19366","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\/19366","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=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}