{"id":19619,"date":"2019-03-07T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19619"},"modified":"2019-03-07T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:24:05","slug":"monthly-hiv-injection-could-free-patients-from-gruelling-drug-regimen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/monthly-hiv-injection-could-free-patients-from-gruelling-drug-regimen\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly HIV injection could free patients from gruelling drug regimen"},"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: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nature.com\/w800\/magazine-assets\/d41586-019-00721-w\/d41586-019-00721-w_16529456.jpg\" alt=\"Coloured transmission electron micrograph of budding HIV particles\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"mr10\">The HIV virus can be kept in check by drugs injected once a month.<\/span>Credit: NIBSC\/Science Photo Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Long-acting medicines have proved as effective as daily pills in preventing HIV from replicating, according to results from twin trials that enrolled more than 1,000 people in 16 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs tested, cabotegravir and rilpivirine, are given once a month as an injection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00721-w\">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>Long-acting medicines have proved as effective as daily pills in preventing HIV from replicating, according to results from twin trials that enrolled&#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-19619","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\/19619","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=19619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}