{"id":46955,"date":"2023-07-03T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=46955"},"modified":"2023-07-03T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T14:39:41","slug":"despite-persistent-claims-otherwise-theres-plenty-of-evidence-that-hiv-exists-and-is-sexually-transmitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/despite-persistent-claims-otherwise-theres-plenty-of-evidence-that-hiv-exists-and-is-sexually-transmitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite persistent claims otherwise, there\u2019s plenty of evidence that HIV exists and is sexually transmitted"},"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><h1 class=\"hero--page-title page-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25067\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HIV-latent-resevoir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HIV-latent-resevoir.jpg 250w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/HIV-latent-resevoir-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/h1>\n<p><strong>IN SHORT:\u00a0<\/strong>The existence of HIV and the link between HIV and Aids has been established by scientists for decades. But false claims disputing these connections <a href=\"https:\/\/africacheck.org\/fact-checks\/meta-programme-fact-checks\/despite-persistent-claims-otherwise-theres-plenty-evidence\">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:\u00a0The existence of HIV and the link between HIV and Aids has been established by scientists for decades. But false claims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46955","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\/2020\/05\/Infected-T-HIVcellV.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46955","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=46955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46956,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46955\/revisions\/46956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}