{"id":19462,"date":"2019-02-27T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19462"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:19:21","slug":"scotlands-introduction-of-hiv-drug-prep-puts-england-to-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/scotlands-introduction-of-hiv-drug-prep-puts-england-to-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s introduction of HIV drug PrEP &#8216;puts England to shame&#8217;"},"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:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2bd6a4685fac0f697ac7e0c40cb8f2bd6ee02883\/0_301_4928_2957\/master\/4928.jpg?width=300&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e533791126fea8593bb11520fff51425\" alt=\" PrEP pills used to prevent HIV.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fewer than five people contracted HIV out of nearly 2,000 people who were at the highest risk of becoming infected with the virus after taking preventative drugs made available for the first time by NHS\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/scotland\">Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners who want to see HIV PrEP (HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) made similarly available elsewhere in the UK say that Scotland\u2019s initial success \u201cputs England\u2019s sluggish delivery to shame\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/feb\/27\/nhs-scotland-introduction-hiv-prevention-drug-prep-report\">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>Fewer than five people contracted HIV out of nearly 2,000 people who were at the highest risk of becoming infected with the&#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-19462","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\/19462","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=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}