{"id":41388,"date":"2009-11-13T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"e60248ce-cf8b-4e1a-b56a-194e3d45666f"},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:19:00","slug":"dc-hiv-study-can-intense-treatment-prevent-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41388","title":{"rendered":"DC HIV Study: Can Intense Treatment Prevent Spread?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/12\/AR2009111208957.html\" >The Washington Post<\/a>: &#8220;The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS.&#8221; In conjunction with the study, NIH will provide experts to the city health department to help modernize clinic record-keeping efforts and to improve the tracking of HIV-infected people. &#8220;Experts will also show social workers how to monitor patients to ensure they take their medication, even when they feel well.&#8221; But the study, which is slated to begin &#8220;on or around World AIDS Day&#8221;\u00a0will face many hurdles.\u00a0&#8220;Researchers must first determine whether testing every adult for HIV is feasible. Then they must determine whether people who test positive will opt for treatment&#8221; (Fears, 11\/13). <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/xVDHj8MaKKs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: &#8220;The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are preparing to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could eliminate AIDS.&#8221; In conjunction with the study, NIH will provide experts to the city health department to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}