{"id":19567,"date":"2019-03-04T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19567"},"modified":"2019-03-04T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T12:43:12","slug":"una-mullally-the-new-hiv-crisis-needs-a-better-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/04\/una-mullally-the-new-hiv-crisis-needs-a-better-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Una Mullally: The new HIV crisis needs a better response"},"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: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.3812856.1551634872!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_620_330\/image.jpg\" alt=\"GHB can impact people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s decision-making skills and boundaries in sexual situations, potentially leading to riskier behaviour. Photograph: Douglas Sacha via Getty Images\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GHB can impact people\u2019s decision-making skills and boundaries in sexual situations, potentially leading to riskier behaviour. Photograph: Douglas Sacha via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>he facts are stark. The current rate of new HIV diagnoses in Ireland now supersedes that of the HIV\/Aids epidemic here during the 1980s and 1990s. New figures published last week show there were 531 new cases of HIV infections diagnosed in 2018, an increase from 492 in 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/una-mullally-the-new-hiv-crisis-needs-a-better-response-1.3812857\">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>he facts are stark. The current rate of new HIV diagnoses in Ireland now supersedes that of the HIV\/Aids epidemic here during&#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-19567","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\/19567","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=19567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}