{"id":6461,"date":"2015-07-01T14:34:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6461"},"modified":"2015-07-01T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T06:34:27","slug":"cuba-has-just-eliminated-hiv-transmission-between-mother-and-baby-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/cuba-has-just-eliminated-hiv-transmission-between-mother-and-baby-sciencealert\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba has just eliminated HIV transmission between mother and baby &#8211; ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The World Health Organisation has confirmed that Cuba has become the first country in the world to effectively eliminate mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis.&#8221;[This is] one of the greatest public health achievements possible,&#8221; WHO director general, Margaret Chan, told the press. And the best part is that it was brought about by relatively simple strategies: namely, better testing and treatment of expectant parents, and providing HIV- and syphilis-positive mothers with options to protect their babies, such as bottle-feeding and C-sections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cuba-has-just-eliminated-hiv-transmission-between-mother-and-baby\">Cuba has just eliminated HIV transmission between mother and baby &#8211; ScienceAlert<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation has confirmed that Cuba has become the first country in the world to effectively eliminate mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis.&#8221;[This is] one of the greatest public health achievements possible,&#8221; WHO director general, Margaret Chan, told the press. And the best part is that it was brought about by relatively simple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/cuba-has-just-eliminated-hiv-transmission-between-mother-and-baby-sciencealert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cuba has just eliminated HIV transmission between mother and baby &#8211; ScienceAlert&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}