{"id":19812,"date":"2019-03-13T18:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19812"},"modified":"2019-03-13T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T18:26:14","slug":"rare-case-of-cured-hiv-patient-raises-fears-of-waning-support-for-b-c-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/rare-case-of-cured-hiv-patient-raises-fears-of-waning-support-for-b-c-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare case of cured HIV patient raises fears of waning support for B.C. charities"},"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=\"placeholder\">\n<div class=\"placeholderImage aspect-56\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded largeImage\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.5054058.1552438451!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_780\/joe-average.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"leadimage-caption\">Artist Joe Average said it was an &#8216;honour&#8217; to pack meals as a volunteer for A Loving Spoonful after benefiting from the charity&#8217;s services for three years when his health was poor. (Lien Yeung\/CBC)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HIV\/AIDS charities in B.C.\u00a0are reiterating their continued need for support after a patient who was declared\u00a0&#8220;functionally cured&#8221;\u00a0recently made global headlines.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, a man who had\u00a0HIV known as &#8220;the London patient&#8221; was found to have no trace of the virus nearly three years after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a rare, HIV-resistant gene mutation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/cured-hiv-aids-patient-bc-charities-funding-support-1.5053863\">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>Artist Joe Average said it was an &#8216;honour&#8217; to pack meals as a volunteer for A Loving Spoonful after benefiting from the&#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-19812","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\/19812","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=19812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}