{"id":43220,"date":"2023-03-08T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=43220"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:32:31","slug":"kenya-no-evidence-that-taking-any-medication-including-panadol-before-an-hiv-test-will-mask-a-positive-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/08\/kenya-no-evidence-that-taking-any-medication-including-panadol-before-an-hiv-test-will-mask-a-positive-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: No Evidence That Taking Any Medication &#8216;Including Panadol&#8217; Before an HIV Test Will Mask a Positive Status"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36889\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tik-tok-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>IN SHORT: A viral TikTok video claims that people with HIV can hide their status by taking medication, even painkillers like paracetamol, before an HIV test. This claim is false, <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202303080359.html\">Read More<\/a><\/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 SHORT: A viral TikTok video claims that people with HIV can hide their status by taking medication, even painkillers like paracetamol,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hiv-2"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dissolvable-paracetamol.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220","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=43220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43221,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220\/revisions\/43221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}