{"id":20807,"date":"2013-02-01T11:35:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=20807"},"modified":"2013-02-07T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T08:15:13","slug":"cdc-issues-brief-on-the-prevention-benefits-of-hiv-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/20807","title":{"rendered":"CDC issues brief on the prevention benefits of HIV treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US CDC has issued a somewhat wordy brief on the benefits of HIV treatment, which is summarised with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HIV testing is the foundation for both prevention and care efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Early identification of infection empowers individuals to take action that benefits both their own health and the public health.<\/li>\n<li>Early treatment of infected persons substantially reduces the risk of transmitting HIV to others.<\/li>\n<li>The prevention benefit of treatment can only be realised with effective treatment, which requires linkage to and retention in care, and adherence to antiretroviral therapy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Issue brief: the prevention benefits of HIV treatment.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/topics\/treatment\/resources\/factsheets\/tap.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/topics\/treatment\/resources\/factsheets\/tap.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US CDC has issued a somewhat wordy brief on the benefits of HIV treatment, which is summarised with: HIV testing is the foundation for both prevention and care efforts. Early identification of infection empowers individuals to take action that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmission-and-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}