{"id":23849,"date":"2012-07-19T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23849"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:48:43","slug":"homosexuals-remain-high-on-hiv-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/homosexuals-remain-high-on-hiv-list","title":{"rendered":"Homosexuals Remain High On HIV List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23850\" title=\"homosexuality-male\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/homosexuality-male.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/homosexuality-male.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/homosexuality-male-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The HIV prevalence of men who have sex with men (MSM) remains significantly high in Jamaica, resulting in the Ministry of Health taking steps to reduce the effects.<\/p>\n<p>According to data released in Together We Will End AIDS yesterday, the HIV prevalence among MSM is approximately 32 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The report was released by UNAIDS ahead of the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, next week.<\/p>\n<p>The report also suggests that the prevalence rate for female sex workers is almost five per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Nicola Skyers, acting director of the National HIV\/STI programme at the Ministry of Health, said the two are among the groups considered most at risk in the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevalence of HIV between homosexuals and sex workers remains significantly high in Jamaica, according to a report released by UNAIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[100,19,323],"class_list":["post-23849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-caribbean-2","tag-health","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}