{"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\"> < 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 \u201cactive negotiations and discussion\u201d with drugmakers on how to make HIV prevention medicines more available and \u201ccost-effective.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump announced an initiative \u201cto eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe 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,\u201d Azar told NPR\u2019s 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 \u201cto 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":["post-20834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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}]}}