{"id":20389,"date":"2019-04-01T15:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20389"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:46:06","slug":"could-nigerias-hiv-rate-be-just-half-what-was-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/could-nigerias-hiv-rate-be-just-half-what-was-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Nigeria&#8217;s HIV rate be just half what was thought?"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/devex\/image\/fetch\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_720\/https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/s16O3g-twmEc3lXxH7PXDwiVKWa6dNCC_QrpcGiiI8i58PWlBFUtEyhxqz_KaMm-8gaJm_9M5UcPrPS0glruogY65ELxuNPLIbaF3ci4phOAxnjCT3cPav9cKB0A6N8lKU72NT9q\" \/>A health worker examines a man during an HIV\/AIDS awareness campaign on World AIDS Day at the Kuchingoro internally displaced people\u2019s camp in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo by: REUTERS\/Afol<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary results\u00a0of one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/featurestories\/2019\/march\/20190322_naiis\">largest HIV surveys ever undertaken<\/a>\u00a0suggest the disease could be just half as prevalent in Nigeria as previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s most populous country had already been marked as successful in reducing its rate from 3.7 percent in 2002 to 2.8 percent in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SH.DYN.AIDS.ZS?locations=NG\">according to estimates<\/a>\u00a0from the United Nations\u2019 dedicated agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/organizations\/unaids-23691\">UNAIDS<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/could-nigeria-s-hiv-rate-be-just-half-what-was-thought-94589\">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>A health worker examines a man during an HIV\/AIDS awareness campaign on World AIDS Day at the Kuchingoro internally displaced people\u2019s camp&#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-20389","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\/20389","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=20389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}