{"id":19422,"date":"2019-02-25T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19422"},"modified":"2019-02-25T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:17:14","slug":"nicholas-duran-bill-aims-to-modernize-hiv-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/nicholas-duran-bill-aims-to-modernize-hiv-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Duran bill aims to modernize HIV law"},"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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/3o15h033zmpwracwx2i00rqx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Nicholas-Duran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4200\" height=\"3588\" \/>Count it a leftover of the AIDS scare in the 1980s: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Documents\/loaddoc.aspx?chapter=0384&amp;section=24&amp;DocumentType=StatRev&amp;PublicationType=S&amp;BillId=62952\"><strong>Florida law<\/strong><\/a> treats those who knowingly transmit HIV different than any other sexually transmitted disease.<\/p>\n<p>But a bill advancing through the Florida House could de-stigmatize HIV without decriminalizing irresponsible transmission entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a longstanding stigma with respect to this based on a years-ago understanding as opposed to current health and medical science on the disease,\u201d state Rep. <strong>Nicholas Duran\u00a0<\/strong>said.<\/p>\n<p>He credits it to law written in a time when people worried spitting or sharing a toilet seat with an HIV-positive individual. <a href=\"http:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/289298-nicholas-duran-hiv-law\">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>Count it a leftover of the AIDS scare in the 1980s: Florida law treats those who knowingly transmit HIV different than any&#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-19422","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\/19422","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=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}