{"id":19430,"date":"2019-02-26T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19430"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:12:49","slug":"game-changer-hiv-drug-prescribed-to-1900-scots-in-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/game-changer-hiv-drug-prescribed-to-1900-scots-in-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Game changer\u2019 HIV drug prescribed to 1,900 Scots in first year"},"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><div style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcluster.dctdigital.com\/thecourier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/02\/2.38828606-496x372.jpg\" alt=\"Syndicate Post image\" width=\"496\" height=\"372\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rollout of a drug to help reduce the chance of HIV transmission in Scotland has been praised (Chris Jackson\/PA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Described as a potential \u201cgame-changer in Scotland\u2019s drive to eliminate HIV\u201d, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) can be prescribed free-of-charge to those who have a very-high risk of becoming infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The number of prescriptions of the drug exceeded the expectations of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS), who revealed that 99% of those accessing it were men who have sex with other men.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/news\/scotland\/836936\/game-changer-hiv-drug-prescribed-to-1900-scots-in-first-year\/\"> 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>Described as a potential \u201cgame-changer in Scotland\u2019s drive to eliminate HIV\u201d, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) can be prescribed free-of-charge to those who have&#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-19430","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\/19430","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=19430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}