{"id":20252,"date":"2019-03-29T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20252"},"modified":"2019-03-29T23:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T23:25:30","slug":"know-your-hiv-status-through-self-testing-experts-counsel-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/29\/know-your-hiv-status-through-self-testing-experts-counsel-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Know your HIV status through self-testing, experts counsel youths"},"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><header class=\"entry-header\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;display:block;margin-top:0 !important;color:#404040;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#fafafa;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<div class=\"social-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-lg-8\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;position:relative;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:808.266px;color:#404040;font-family:'open sans', sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#fafafa;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<div class=\"row post_featured_image\">\n<div class=\"b-lazy b-loaded\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;position:relative;overflow:hidden;background-position:center top !important;background-size:cover !important;width:808.266px;height:400px;background-image:url('https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/29193949\/HIV-researchers-from-NIMR-etc.jpg');\">\n<div class=\"blurry\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;width:808.266px;height:400px;background-image:url('https:\/\/cdn.punchng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/29193949\/HIV-researchers-from-NIMR-etc-30x21.jpg');background-repeat:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:#cccccc;transform:scale(1.1);filter:blur(8px);background-position:center top !important;background-size:cover !important;max-width:100%;opacity:0;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fcaption\"><span class=\"caption\">Researchers from the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos; Saint Louis University; University of North Carolina and New York University at the Designathon 2019 programme in Lagos. NAN image<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"hidden-sm-down\">A Public Health Specialist, Dr. Oliver Ezechi, has encouraged Nigerian youths to know their HIV status through self-testing to help in eliminating the infection.<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;margin:24px 0;text-align:justify;font-family:'frank ruhl libre', serif;font-size:18px;line-height:1.65em;text-shadow:#ffffff 0 1px 0;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);letter-spacing:0;\">\n<p>Ezechi, a member of the Nigerian National HIV Treatment Task Team at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, spoke on Friday in Lagos at a programme tagged:\u00a0<em>4 Youth by Youth Designathon 2019<\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/know-your-hiv-status-through-self-testing-experts-counsel-youths\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread teads-display-format\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-adchoices\" style=\"box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0 !important;color:#000000;font-family:arial;font-size:11px;cursor:pointer;position:absolute;top:3px;right:5px;width:15px;height:15px;line-height:15px;padding:1px;background:100% center \/ 15px 15px no-repeat;z-index:1;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:'frank ruhl libre', serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.5px;orphans:2;text-align:justify;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#fafafa;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing:inherit;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:1.5em;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:'frank ruhl libre', serif;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:.5px;orphans:2;text-align:justify;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0;background-color:#fafafa;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;\">\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>Researchers from the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos; Saint Louis University; University of North Carolina and New York University at&#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-20252","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\/20252","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=20252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}