{"id":1613,"date":"2008-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/cuba-has-lowest-aids-rate-in-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"cuba-has-lowest-aids-rate-in-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2008\/12\/cuba-has-lowest-aids-rate-in-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"CUBA HAS LOWEST AIDS RATE IN CARIBBEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba has the lowest HIV\/AIDS prevalence rate at 0.1 percent of the population in the Caribbean, the National AIDS Prevention Center (NAPC) said.<\/p>\n<p>While AIDS-related mortality is low in the island, and mother-to-child transmission is negligible, the epidemic shows a sustained growth, mainly among the male population, NAPC chief Rosaida Ochoa told journalists on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban capital has the largest number of AIDS\/HIV patients, she added.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently nearly 9,000 people living with HIV\/AIDS in Cuba, with 3,000 getting antiretroviral therapy, in line with international standards, said Manuel Hernandez, an official of the NAPC.<\/p>\n<p>At least 1,150 new cases have been detected till date this year and over 1.7 million diagnostic tests done, Hernandez said.<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpress.org\/link.cfm?http:\/\/story.brazilsun.com\/index.php\/ct\/9\/cid\/80f72651582f2c13\/id\/435827\/cs\/1\/\" ><br \/>GO TO ORIGINAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba has the lowest HIV\/AIDS prevalence rate at 0.1 percent of the population in the Caribbean, the National AIDS Prevention Center (NAPC) said. While AIDS-related mortality is low in the island, and mother-to-child transmission is negligible, the epidemic shows a sustained growth, mainly among the male population, NAPC chief Rosaida Ochoa told journalists on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}