{"id":4119,"date":"2019-06-07T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2019-06-17T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:47:48","slug":"hiv-and-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2019\/06\/07\/hiv-and-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV And Good News!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/progress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/progress.jpg 975w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/progress-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/progress-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a frequently heard phrase. But it&#8217;s true. Control of HIV has progressed remarkably since the year 2000. Some highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>1996: Combination AntiRetroviral Treatment\n(ART) is found effective in HIV treatment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1997: AIDS deaths begin to decline in nations\nthat offer ART<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2002: The Global Fund is founded to combat\nHIV, TB and malaria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2003: ART cost diminishes and becomes more\navailable in developing nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2010: Pre-exposure\nprophylaxis (PrEP) is found to reduce HIV transmission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2013: UNAIDS reports that AIDS-related deaths have fallen 30% since their peak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2015: WHO launches new treatment guidelines that that all HIV-positive people should receive ART, regardless of their CD4 count, and as soon as possible <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017: For the first time, more than half the global HIV-positive population are receiving ART, a record of 19.5 million people <\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For all the angst associated with HIV, and all the recent advances in its control, we are justified in enjoying a moment to celebrate <em>HIV and good news!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a frequently heard phrase. But it&#8217;s true. Control of HIV has progressed remarkably since the year 2000. Some highlights include: &nbsp; 1996: Combination AntiRetroviral Treatment (ART) is found effective in HIV treatment 1997: AIDS deaths begin to decline in nations that offer ART 2002: The Global Fund is founded to combat HIV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}