{"id":19536,"date":"2019-03-02T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2019-03-02T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T18:26:01","slug":"black-women-and-hiv-oral-history-reveals-their-pain-disenfranchisement-and-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/black-women-and-hiv-oral-history-reveals-their-pain-disenfranchisement-and-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Black women and HIV: Oral history reveals their pain, disenfranchisement and endurance"},"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 class=\"inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/resizer\/eLIZnmELqHg30Iit_YuLF-rynyk=\/1484x0\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/X6H2E5B3Q4I6TMIL6BNCFZ2YMU.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"pb-caption\">Sophia Harrison has lived with epilepsy, breast cancer and HIV and is surviving all three, according to the Conversation. (Aamir Khuller)<\/span><\/div>\n<article class=\"paywall\">\n<div class=\"author-sig-line-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\"><\/div>\n<p>Some 7,500 women were diagnosed with HIV in 2016 and the\u00a0<a title=\"theconversation.com\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/stories-of-african-american-women-aging-with-hiv-my-life-wasnt-what-i-hoped-it-to-be-111804\">majority<\/a>\u00a0of them \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/group\/gender\/women\/index.html\">61\u00a0percent<\/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u2014 were black. HIV is just one of the health challenges, including breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease, that affects black women more often than women of other races. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/black-women-and-hiv-oral-history-reveals-their-pain-disenfranchisement-and-endurance\/2019\/02\/28\/c87b2f92-3a9d-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html?utm_term=.f5476dbad324\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\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>Sophia Harrison has lived with epilepsy, breast cancer and HIV and is surviving all three, according to the Conversation. (Aamir Khuller) Some&#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-19536","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\/19536","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=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}