{"id":19587,"date":"2019-03-05T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19587"},"modified":"2019-03-05T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T14:10:09","slug":"testing-everyone-for-hiv-leads-to-drop-in-infection-by-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/05\/testing-everyone-for-hiv-leads-to-drop-in-infection-by-a-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing everyone for HIV leads to drop in infection by a third"},"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:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/content\/dam\/news\/2019\/03\/04\/TELEMMGLPICT000167378582_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=450\" alt=\"A man being tested for HIV\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">T<\/span>esting everyone in a community for HIV and offering immediate treatment to all those who test positive can cut the number of new infections by around a third, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u00a0took place in Zambia and South Africa, both countries with a high burden of disease, and researchers believe\u00a0that\u00a0this approach could go some way to ending\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/hiv\/\">the HIV epidemic in these two countries<\/a>\u00a0and elsewhere.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/testing-everyone-hiv-leads-drop-infection-third\/\">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>Testing everyone in a community for HIV and offering immediate treatment to all those who test positive can cut the number of&#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-19587","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\/19587","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=19587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}