{"id":20294,"date":"2019-03-31T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20294"},"modified":"2019-03-31T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T18:33:41","slug":"is-elimination-of-vertical-transmission-of-hiv-in-high-prevalence-settings-achievable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/is-elimination-of-vertical-transmission-of-hiv-in-high-prevalence-settings-achievable\/","title":{"rendered":"Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in high prevalence settings achievable?"},"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><p><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#333333;font-family:'interfaceregular', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/1264906\/images\/o-HIV-AIDS-facebook.jpg\" \/>The idea of eliminating infectious diseases from society dates to the 18th century, when Edward Jenner envisioned elimination of smallpox through widespread vaccination. By 1997, the difference between control, eradication, and elimination had been defined (<\/span><a id=\"xref-boxed-text-1-1\" class=\"xref-boxed-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l687#boxed-text-1\">box 1<\/a><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#333333;font-family:'interfaceregular', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\">).<\/span><a id=\"xref-ref-1-1\" class=\"xref-bibr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l687#ref-1\">1<\/a><a id=\"xref-ref-2-1\" class=\"xref-bibr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l687#ref-2\">2<\/a><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#333333;font-family:'interfaceregular', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:100%;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:24px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\"> Of the perinatally acquired infections, only tetanus, HIV, and syphilis have been targeted for elimination.<\/span><a id=\"xref-ref-3-1\" class=\"xref-bibr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l687#ref-3\">3<\/a><a id=\"xref-ref-4-1\" class=\"xref-bibr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/364\/bmj.l687#ref-4\">4\u00a0 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>The idea of eliminating infectious diseases from society dates to the 18th century, when Edward Jenner envisioned elimination of smallpox through widespread&#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-20294","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\/20294","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=20294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}