{"id":126,"date":"2011-05-05T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/number-of-aids-patients-on-arv-treatment-rises\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:55:24","slug":"number-of-aids-patients-on-arv-treatment-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/number-of-aids-patients-on-arv-treatment-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of AIDS patients on ARV treatment rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Additional 4,187 <span data-scaytid=\"1\" data-scayt_word=\"AIDs\">AIDs<\/span> patients in Rwanda have registered for <span data-scaytid=\"2\" data-scayt_word=\"Anti-Retroviral\">Anti-Retroviral<\/span> treatment since 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;This has increased the number of patients on <span data-scaytid=\"3\" data-scayt_word=\"ARVs\">ARVs<\/span> by 5.8% to 76,726, this year, from 72,539 in 2009, according a recent report released by the National AIDS Commission (<span data-scaytid=\"5\" data-scayt_word=\"CNLS\">CNLS<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<span data-scaytid=\"6\" data-scayt_word=\"CNLS\">CNLS<\/span> officials attribute the increase to the nationwide <span data-scaytid=\"7\" data-scayt_word=\"sensitisation\">sensitisation<\/span> programs aimed at creating more awareness on HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandans living with HIV are estimated at 3 percent or 300,000 in a population of 10 million plus, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Currently, the number of sites that offer <span data-scaytid=\"4\" data-scayt_word=\"ARVs\">ARVs<\/span> is estimated at 517 countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The report further shows that out of 1,393,081 people who took HIV test, 34,239 were positive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The report says that women aged between 30-44 years are increasingly taking the lead in accessing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The report says that the ABC strategy, which means Abstinence, Faithfulness and Condom, is bearing fruits in educating Rwandans about the HIV spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Additional 4,187 AIDs patients in Rwanda have registered for Anti-Retroviral treatment since 2009. &nbsp;This has increased the number of patients on ARVs by 5.8% to 76,726, this year, from 72,539 in 2009, according a recent report released by the National AIDS Commission (CNLS). &nbsp;CNLS officials attribute the increase to the nationwide sensitisation programs aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[287],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-joram-muhooza"],"bylines":[{"id":287,"name":"Joram Muhooza","slug":"joram-muhooza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":287,"name":"Joram Muhooza","slug":"joram-muhooza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}