{"id":19424,"date":"2019-02-26T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19424"},"modified":"2019-02-26T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T00:09:03","slug":"i-am-not-a-person-with-hiv-i-am-a-person-fullstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/i-am-not-a-person-with-hiv-i-am-a-person-fullstop\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not a person with HIV. I am a person, fullstop"},"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:\/\/cdn-attachments.timesofmalta.com\/cf9d03b00976d6905087a6372c990249ba412587-1551121192-5c743b28-620x348.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;margin:0;padding:0 0 15px;border:0;outline:0;font-size:1.167em !important;vertical-align:baseline;background:#ffffff;word-spacing:2px;line-height:1.3em !important;color:#333333;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\"><em style=\"font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;outline:0;font-size:14.004px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;\">Not everyone with HIV can infect others, a fact most people are unaware of, says a young man who has tested positive for the virus. In the wake of fake news about HIV transmission which was shared by a Maltese MP, he tells\u00a0<strong style=\"font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;outline:0;font-size:14.004px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;\">Ramona Depares<\/strong>\u00a0that the country is in urgent need of basic education to remove the stigma.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased;margin:0;padding:0 0 15px;border:0;outline:0;font-size:1.167em !important;vertical-align:baseline;background:#ffffff;word-spacing:2px;line-height:1.3em !important;color:#333333;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">Malta lags far behind its European counterparts when it comes to educational campaigns about HIV, and the brunt is being borne by patients who are often at the receiving end of unjustified stigma, a young man who was diagnosed with HIV two years ago told this newspaper. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20190225\/local\/i-am-not-a-person-with-hiv-i-am-a-person-fullstop.702802\">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>Not everyone with HIV can infect others, a fact most people are unaware of, says a young man who has tested positive&#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-19424","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\/19424","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=19424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}