{"id":20834,"date":"2019-04-09T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20834"},"modified":"2019-04-09T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:06:42","slug":"how-hhs-secretary-reconciles-proposed-medicaid-cuts-stopping-the-spread-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/09\/how-hhs-secretary-reconciles-proposed-medicaid-cuts-stopping-the-spread-of-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"How HHS Secretary Reconciles Proposed Medicaid Cuts, Stopping The Spread Of HIV"},"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:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/04\/08\/gettyimages-1124235516_custom-1eb07f5b5944abb8508961339a706b54d230924c-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption> <br>HHS Secretary Alex Azar at a White House roundtable discussion of health care prices in January. Azar tells NPR his office is now in &#8220;active negotiations and discussion&#8221; with drugmakers on how to make HIV prevention medicines more available and &#8220;cost-effective.&#8221; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump announced an initiative &#8220;to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man who pitched the president on this idea is Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have the data that tells us where we have to focus, we have the tools, we have the leadership \u2014 this is an historic opportunity,&#8221; Azar told NPR&#8217;s Ari Shapiro Monday 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>In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump announced an initiative &#8220;to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United&#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-20834","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\/20834","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=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}