{"id":66144,"date":"2015-12-03T01:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66144"},"modified":"2015-12-03T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:21:18","slug":"870-people-infected-hivaids-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/03\/870-people-infected-hivaids-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"870 people infected with HIV\/AIDS in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIRANA, ALBANIA- Albania continues to maintain a low level of HIV\/AIDS infection in 2015 but has raised awareness of curbing the spread of the disease nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian State Sanitary Inspectorate reported about 870 cumulative cases of HIV\/AIDS in the country, Health Minister Ilir Beqaj said Wednesday at a meeting held on the occasion of the World AIDS Day that falls on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should reduce this number and also we should offer people the needed treatment,&#8221; Albanian Daily News quoted Beqaj as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Beqaj said that many Albanians are afraid to go to health centers for examinations and this is the main reason why the disease is not diagnosed in the initial phase.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, studies showed that a considerable part of people infected with HIV are not aware they are carrier of the virus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">He said that HIV\/AIDS remains an urban phenomenon in Albania because 72.8 percent of the infected are from cities and 48 percent of them, from the capital of Tirana.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIRANA, ALBANIA- Albania continues to maintain a low level of HIV\/AIDS infection in 2015 but has raised awareness of curbing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":66146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-66144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-upload","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}