{"id":19434,"date":"2019-02-26T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:14:48","slug":"uptake-of-hiv-preventing-drug-exceeds-expectations-in-first-year-on-nhs-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/uptake-of-hiv-preventing-drug-exceeds-expectations-in-first-year-on-nhs-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptake of HIV-preventing drug exceeds expectations in first year on NHS Scotland"},"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: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/resources\/images\/9482178.jpg?display=1&amp;htype=0&amp;type=responsive-gallery\" alt=\"Uptake of HIV-preventing drug PrEP exceeds expectations in first year on NHS Scotland\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uptake of HIV-preventing drug PrEP exceeds expectations in first year on NHS Scotland<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-first-paragraph\">NEARLY 1900 have been prescribed a drug shown to drastically reduce the risk of HIV transmission since it was made available on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/search\/?search=NHS&amp;topic_id=8783\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/search\/?search=Scotland&amp;topic_id=8820\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scotland<\/a>\u00a0a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Health Protection Scotland said uptake of HIV Pre Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) had exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscription-content\">\n<p>Scotland was the the first of the UK nations to make the &#8220;game-changing&#8221; drug routinely available on the NHS in July 2017 for those at the very highest risk of acquiring HIV. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/17459611.uptake-of-hiv-preventing-drug-exceeds-expectations-in-first-year-on-nhs-scotland\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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>NEARLY 1900 have been prescribed a drug shown to drastically reduce the risk of HIV transmission since it was made available on&#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-19434","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\/19434","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=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}