{"id":19733,"date":"2019-03-11T20:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:12:32","slug":"largest-ever-hiv-prevention-study-delivers-sobering-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/largest-ever-hiv-prevention-study-delivers-sobering-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest ever HIV prevention study delivers sobering message"},"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=\"figure__head\">\n<div style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline__450w__no_aspect\/public\/Kim%20Cloete_16x9.jpg?itok=ljKl5Xt4\" width=\"699\" height=\"393\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community health workers with\u00a0the\u00a0Population Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy to Reduce HIV Transmission study did door-to-door HIV testing of 1 million people annually for 3 years.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption__text\">\n<p><span style=\"color:var(--color-neutral-600);\">The recipe for ending HIV epidemics seems straightforward. Introduce widespread testing. Immediately put those who test positive on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, which suppress the virus to undetectable levels so those people won\u2019t infect others. The number of new infections will drop, and the epidemic will peter out.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2019\/03\/largest-ever-hiv-prevention-study-delivers-sobering-message?r3f_986=http:\/\/c.newsnow.co.uk\/A\/977229291?-10454:1307:latest_news\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp; The recipe for ending HIV epidemics seems straightforward. Introduce widespread testing. Immediately put those who test positive on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs,&#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-19733","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\/19733","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=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}