{"id":19767,"date":"2019-03-12T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19767"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:28:17","slug":"sadiq-khan-cash-row-is-denying-londoners-access-to-hiv-wonder-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/12\/sadiq-khan-cash-row-is-denying-londoners-access-to-hiv-wonder-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadiq Khan: Cash row is denying Londoners access to HIV \u2018wonder drug\u2019"},"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: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" title=\"Sadiq Khan called for a Government intervention to ensure PrEP is available \u201cto all who need it\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/static.standard.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2019\/02\/12\/11\/sadiqkhan1202.jpg?w968\" alt=\"Sadiq Khan called for a Government intervention to ensure PrEP is available \u201cto all who need it\u201d\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadiq Khan called for a Government intervention to ensure PrEP is available \u201cto all who need it\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"copyright\">( Getty Images )<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption-wrap\">\n<p>Mayor\u00a0Sadiq Khan today said he was \u201cshocked\u201d that a row over funding was denying more Londoners access to an\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/hiv\">HIV<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwonder drug\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Khan intervened in a battle between London councils and the Government over the estimated \u00a33 million\u00a0cost of extending a trial providing free\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/prep\">PrEP<\/a>, a daily pre-exposure prophylaxis pill that protects against the\u00a0<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/aids\">Aids<\/a>\u00a0virus.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/health\/sadiq-khan-cash-row-is-denying-londoners-access-to-hiv-wonder-drug-a4089101.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Mayor\u00a0Sadiq Khan today said he was \u201cshocked\u201d that a row over funding was denying more Londoners access to an\u00a0HIV\u00a0\u201cwonder drug\u201d. Mr Khan&#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-19767","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\/19767","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=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}