{"id":19394,"date":"2019-02-24T02:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19394"},"modified":"2019-02-24T02:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:01:39","slug":"hiv-risks-increased-by-trend-towards-late-diagnosis-researcher-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/24\/hiv-risks-increased-by-trend-towards-late-diagnosis-researcher-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV risks increased by trend towards late diagnosis, researcher warns"},"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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hayden Patterson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/image\/10843300-3x2-940x627.jpg\" alt=\"Adelaide resident Hayden Patterson holds up a large pill he takes to treat HIV.\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayden Patterson has HIV and says early testing is vital<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"first\">An alarming trend towards late-term HIV diagnosis is posing a public health risk that could undo efforts to curb the spread of the virus, a leading researcher has warned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-content wysiwyg right\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<p>Professor Steve Wesselingh from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) said a growing number of HIV patients were being diagnosed late.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trend is illustrated by the latest set of figures profiling HIV in Australia, which show 937 new HIV diagnoses in 2017, down from 1,013 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Of those new cases, 36 per cent were classed as late, which can result in a patient health being unnecessary compromised. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-02-24\/hayden-patterson-1\/10843340\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp; An alarming trend towards late-term HIV diagnosis is posing a public health risk that could undo efforts to curb the spread&#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-19394","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\/19394","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=19394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}