{"id":76454,"date":"2025-06-16T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=76454"},"modified":"2025-06-16T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:39:15","slug":"i-dont-want-my-boy-to-be-positive-pregnant-women-face-sky-high-viral-loads-as-cuts-hit-hiv-care-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/i-dont-want-my-boy-to-be-positive-pregnant-women-face-sky-high-viral-loads-as-cuts-hit-hiv-care-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t want my boy to be positive\u2019: pregnant women face sky-high viral loads as cuts hit HIV care in Africa"},"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><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1GMpZ0.img?w=534&amp;h=349&amp;m=6&amp;x=0&amp;y=459&amp;s=280&amp;d=114\" alt=\"A march in Cape Town in 2001, protesting against Thabo Mbeki\u2019s Aids policies. About 70,000 babies a year were born with HIV, despite drugs being available to stop this. Photograph: Getty\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aphelele Mafilika was born HIV positive in 2004. Put on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as a baby, she has been on the life-saving medication ever since and has lived a normal life. No longer. \u201cNow, I have a problem,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/i-don-t-want-my-boy-to-be-positive-pregnant-women-face-sky-high-viral-loads-as-cuts-hit-hiv-care-in-africa\/ar-AA1GMuog?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=56dec80f3bee4e0cb2f2002229cd96f3&amp;ei=44\">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>Aphelele Mafilika was born HIV positive in 2004. Put on antiretrovirals (ARVs) as a baby, she has been on the life-saving medication&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76454","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\/07\/Pregnant-HIV.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76454","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=76454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76455,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76454\/revisions\/76455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}