{"id":99233,"date":"2019-12-02T04:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/h-i-v-is-coming-to-rural-america"},"modified":"2019-12-02T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:42:15","slug":"h-i-v-is-coming-to-rural-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/h-i-v-is-coming-to-rural-america","title":{"rendered":"H.I.V. Is Coming to Rural America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/h-i-v-is-coming-to-rural-america2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfdph.org\/dph\/files\/reports\/RptsHIVAIDS\/AnnualReport2017-Green-20180904-Web.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-met-chicago-hiv-diagnoses-decline-2017-story.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a> have also seen their rates of new H.I.V. infections falling.<\/p>\n<p>But while robust municipal health campaigns are creating downward H.I.V. trends in some of America\u2019s largest cities, in much of rural America, an opposite trend is emerging. There have of course always been cases of H.I.V. in sparsely populated parts of the country, but<strong class=\"\"> <\/strong>in these places far from cities, the conditions that lead to H.I.V. transmission are now intensifying \u2014 and rural America is not ready for the coming crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in Appalachian West Virginia, the crisis has already arrived. A cluster of 80 new H.I.V. infections has <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/unraveling-an-hiv-cluster\/2019\/11\/03\/66cf4526-f5af-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">been diagnosed<\/a> since early last year in Cabell County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco and Chicago have also seen their rates of new H.I.V. infections falling. But while robust municipal health campaigns are creating downward H.I.V. trends in some of America\u2019s largest cities, in much of rural America, an opposite trend is emerging. There have of course always been cases of H.I.V. in sparsely populated parts of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}