{"id":19468,"date":"2019-02-27T17:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19468"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:23:21","slug":"namibia-the-burden-of-hiv-on-health-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/27\/namibia-the-burden-of-hiv-on-health-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: The Burden of HIV On Health Budget"},"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 class=\"story-body-text\">Windhoek \u2014 Infectious and parasitic diseases including HIV\/AIDS received the highest allocation of funds taking up 23 percent of the total health expenditure in the 2015\/2016 financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">This is stated in a new report by the Ministry of Health and Social Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">The high expenditure on HIV and infectious disease was closely followed by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and reproductive health, which consumed 20 percent and 16 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\">NCDs are those, which are not spread and are non-contagious, but are caused due to allergy, long-illness, abnormalities in cell proliferation, inherited, and malnutrition. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201902270830.html\">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>Windhoek \u2014 Infectious and parasitic diseases including HIV\/AIDS received the highest allocation of funds taking up 23 percent of the total health&#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-19468","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\/19468","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=19468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}