{"id":83,"date":"2006-03-15T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=83"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:07","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-hiv-1-and-hiv-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/83","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between HIV-1 and HIV-2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIV-1 is the main family of HIV and accounts for 95% of all infections        worldwide. HIV-2 is a very different virus and is only generally seen in        a few West African countries. Although HIV-2 generally progresses more slowly        than HIV-1, some HIV drugs (like nevirapine and efavirenz) will not work        against HIV-2.<\/p>\n<p>(Adapted from a question from the i-Base Q&amp;A pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaneyetrust.org.uk\/\">African Eye<\/a> a new treatment publication for African communities affected by HIV who are living in the UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV-1 is the main family of HIV and accounts for 95% of all infections worldwide. HIV-2 is a very different virus and is only generally seen in a few West African countries. Although HIV-2 generally progresses more slowly than HIV-1, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}