{"id":246074,"date":"2004-11-12T13:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/hiv-rates-on-the-rise-in-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2004-11-12T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:12:41","slug":"hiv-rates-on-the-rise-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/hiv-rates-on-the-rise-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"HIV Rates On the Rise In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The terminal disease has become the leading cause of death for residents between 20 and 44, Health Secretary Ron Pinder told delegates at a Caribbean AIDS awareness conference Wednesday. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;We have two options,&#8221; Pinder said. &#8220;Either completely abstain [from sex] or protect ourselves using a condom.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Of the archipelago&#8217;s 300,000 people, 9,764 have been diagnosed with HIV while 4,549 people are living with full-blown AIDS, according to health officials. Over 3,000 people have died of AIDS on the islands over the past two decades. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Caribbean has the second highest rate of HIV infection in the world after sub-Saharan Africa.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Miami Herald<BR><br \/>\nNovember 12, 2004<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing rates of HIV\/AIDS are threatening to destroy the social fabric of the Bahamas, the country&#8217;s top health official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246074","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}