{"id":30779,"date":"2017-08-17T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=30779"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:35:52","slug":"hiv-down-from-7-3-to-6-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/hiv-down-from-7-3-to-6-0\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV down from 7.3% to 6.0%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Damali Mukhaye:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>HIV prevalence remains high among Ugandan women compared to men.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to preliminary results from the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment Survey 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The results that have been released by the minister of health Jane Ruth Aceng indicates that 7.5% of women are living with HIV compared to 4.3% of men.<\/p>\n<p>The report also shows that 1.3 million Ugandans are living with HIV<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6% of adults between the ages of 15-49 are infected while 0.5% of children between the ages 5-14 at have the virus.<\/p>\n<p>In Urban areas, HIV is more prevalent with 7.1% of people living with the virus compared to 5.5% in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, the report indicates that HIV prevalence has declined across socio-demographic subgroups and across the country mainly due to a reduction in the number of new infections and suppression of the viral load which is at 60%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Damali Mukhaye: HIV prevalence remains high among Ugandan women compared to men. This is according to preliminary results from the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment Survey 2016. The results that have been released by the minister of health Jane Ruth Aceng indicates that 7.5% of women are living with HIV compared to 4.3% of men. The report also shows that 1.3 million Ugandans are living with HIV. 6% of adults between the ages of 15-49 are infected while 0.5% of children between the ages 5-14 at have the virus. In Urban areas, HIV is more prevalent with 7.1% of people living with the virus compared to 5.5% in rural areas. On a positive note, the report indicates that HIV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}