{"id":19613,"date":"2019-03-06T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19613"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:27:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:27:46","slug":"un-aids-agency-greatly-encouraged-by-functional-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/un-aids-agency-greatly-encouraged-by-functional-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"UN AIDS agency greatly encouraged by \u2018functional cure&#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>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN agency<\/a>\u00a0leading the global effort to end AIDS, said on Tuesday that a new case of a patient who has been \u201cfunctionally cured\u201d of HIV infection, is greatly encouraging, but there is still a long way to go before the illness can be eradicated.<\/p>\n<p>The male patient, who was being treated for lymphatic cancer at a London hospital in the United Kingdom, underwent a stem cell transplant in 2016, with cells from a donor carrying a rare genetic resistance to the HIV virus. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/GE1903\/S00015\/un-aids-agency-greatly-encouraged-by-functional-cure.htm\">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>The\u00a0UN agency\u00a0leading the global effort to end AIDS, said on Tuesday that a new case of a patient who has been \u201cfunctionally&#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-19613","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\/19613","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=19613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}