{"id":21028,"date":"2019-04-12T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=21028"},"modified":"2019-04-12T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T12:20:18","slug":"real-life-hiv-stories-prep-state-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/real-life-hiv-stories-prep-state-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-life HIV Stories PrEP State For Change"},"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:\/\/www.newhavenindependent.org\/images\/made\/archives\/upload\/2019\/04\/Chris\/PrEP_-_2_360_225_86_sha-100.jpg\" alt=\"CT-N\" \/><figcaption><br>Samuel Smith, 20 and living with HIV, testifies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A change in state law won\u2019t come soon enough to have protected Samuel Smith from contracting HIV during his senior year at Wilbur Cross High School. He told state lawmakers about that \u2014 \u00a0in the hopes that they\u2019ll make the fix for other kids soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Smith was one of a group of New Haveners who recently testified in Hartford about what should be done to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poz.com\/article\/truth-about-the-7000\">stop the spread of HIV<\/a>, particularly among young queer people of color, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/06\/magazine\/americas-hidden-hiv-epidemic.html\">transmission rates are on the rise<\/a>. 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>A change in state law won\u2019t come soon enough to have protected Samuel Smith from contracting HIV during his senior year at&#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-21028","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\/21028","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=21028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}