{"id":26096,"date":"2025-02-02T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26096"},"modified":"2025-02-02T00:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T00:45:20","slug":"health-ministry-achieves-unaids-goal-with-95-of-people-aware-of-hiv-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/health-ministry-achieves-unaids-goal-with-95-of-people-aware-of-hiv-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry Achieves UNAIDS Goal with 95% of People Aware of HIV Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Jan 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health has successfully met the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) objective, with 95% of persons living with HIV in Guyana now aware of their HIV status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This milestone was announced by Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, during his end-of-year press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Anthony credited the achievement to the Ministry&#8217;s dedicated efforts to increase awareness and access to HIV testing and treatment services across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the 95% figure aligns with UNAIDS&#8217; global target for HIV testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Anthony reported that 41% of individuals living with HIV are now virally suppressed, meaning they cannot transmit the virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry plans to continue its efforts to ensure that all individuals on treatment achieve viral suppression in the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To further reduce the spread of HIV, Dr. Anthony urged citizens to take advantage of available initiatives such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) and self-testing options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> These measures aim to improve access to care and support the global fight against HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 2, 2025 The Ministry of Health has successfully met the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) objective, with 95% of persons living with HIV in Guyana now&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26097,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26096\/revisions\/26097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}