{"id":21235,"date":"2020-05-16T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2020-05-16T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T15:19:58","slug":"surge-in-hiv-infections-anticipated-due-to-coronavirus-lockdown-researcher-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/16\/surge-in-hiv-infections-anticipated-due-to-coronavirus-lockdown-researcher-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge In HIV Infections Anticipated Due To Coronavirus Lockdown, Researcher Warns"},"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><picture class=\"mapping-large lazysize\" title=\"hiv protein \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mapping-large lazysize  lazyloaded\" title=\"hiv protein \" src=\"https:\/\/images.latintimes.com\/sites\/latintimes.com\/files\/styles\/picture_this\/public\/2015\/03\/11\/hiv-protein.jpg\" alt=\"hiv protein \" width=\"770\" height=\"774\" \/><\/picture><span class=\"figcaption\"> <span class=\"caption\">An artist illustration of a schematic depiction of the protein structure of the pre-fusion HIV spike as viewed from above shows the three gp41 molecules in blue and the three gp120 molecules in red, in this National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) image released on October 8, 2014. New research that sheds light on the methods and machinery used by HIV to infect cells provides insight into the tricky virus that potentially could guide the development of a vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS, according to U.S. government and other scientists. <\/span> <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/NIAID\/Handout<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Nationwide lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are helping contain <\/span><span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">COVID-19<\/span><\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> pandemic, however, researchers fear that this may potentially lead to a surge in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/covid-19-result-hiv-vaccine-attempt-gone-wrong-china-claims-french-nobel-laureate-luc-457948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">human immunodeficiency virus<\/a><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> (HIV) infections worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">An epidemiologist at Emory University, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/index.php?FID=travis-sanchez-8687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> Travis Sanchez<\/a><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">, believes that lockdown may undermine the efforts of public health experts in controlling HIV infections. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latintimes.com\/surge-hiv-infections-anticipated-due-coronavirus-lockdown-researcher-warns-458452\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/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>An artist illustration of a schematic depiction of the protein structure of the pre-fusion HIV spike as viewed from above shows the&#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-21235","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\/21235","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=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21236,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}