{"id":20815,"date":"2019-04-08T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20815"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:41:06","slug":"give-hiv-home-test-kits-to-men-who-have-sex-with-men-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/give-hiv-home-test-kits-to-men-who-have-sex-with-men-say-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Give HIV home-test kits to men who have sex with men, say researchers"},"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<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/cKfvmFuEsxZIksUhjAy3yzw1YOrGefrmCGVfFkvL0JwosT-V4CiuvnXuJh0hhwbHV7ebyzAMx1Ha0A91-JZ-=s750\" alt=\"An example of an HIV home test (not necessarily one used in the study described in this article).\" \/><figcaption> <br>An example of an HIV home test (not necessarily one used in the study described in this article).\u00a0<br><em>Image:\u00a0GroundUp\/James McIntyre<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving men who have sex with men (MSM) access to free self-screening HIV kits would increase testing among hard-to-reach groups and help South Africa reach its HIV targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samj.org.za\/index.php\/samj\/article\/view\/12581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new study<\/a>&nbsp;published in the&nbsp;<em>South African Medical Journal<\/em>&nbsp;(SAMJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was done with MSM in the high HIV-prevalence districts of Gert Sibande and Ehlanzeni in Mpumalanga where 127 people were provided with their choice of blood or oral fluid self-screening HIV testing kits. Read More<\/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>Giving men who have sex with men (MSM) access to free self-screening HIV kits would increase testing among hard-to-reach groups and help&#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-20815","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\/20815","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=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}