{"id":20502,"date":"2019-04-02T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2019-04-02T20:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:10:22","slug":"the-worlds-largest-hiv-epidemic-in-crisis-hiv-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/the-worlds-largest-hiv-epidemic-in-crisis-hiv-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Largest HIV Epidemic in Crisis: HIV in South Africa"},"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>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Center for Strategic &amp; International Studies<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/l7.alamy.com\/zooms\/6d475ccd8ed2496ebb29b18c62bfa7b7\/aids2000-conference-durban-kwazulu-natal-south-africa-7-2000-naids-bbhe8r.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> In some communities of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sexrightsafrica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/HIPSS-Baseline-findings-2015.pdf\">60 percent\u00a0<\/a>of women have HIV. Nearly 4,500 South Africans are newly infected every week; one-third are adolescent girls\/young women (AGYW) ages 15-24.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One barrier is the provision of basic health education and service delivery in schools. While South Africa has a national policy on school-based health education, some provincial officials, school governing boards, and other gatekeepers often prevent services from being provided, even though the age of consent for health services is 12. Schools are an important entry point because there is a high rate of school retention in South Africa and, once out of school, it is difficult to reach young people.<\/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>Center for Strategic &amp; International Studies In some communities of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa,\u00a060 percent\u00a0of women have HIV. Nearly 4,500 South Africans&#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-20502","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\/20502","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=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}