{"id":321,"date":"2011-11-29T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-10-09T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T07:59:04","slug":"one-in-five-people-offered-an-hiv-test-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/one-in-five-people-offered-an-hiv-test-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"One in Five People Offered an HIV Test Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-15922568?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">New figures<\/a> from the Health Protection Agency show that one in five people offered an HIV test refuse to have the test.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that 96,500 people are HIV+ in the UK in 2010, with a quarter of them unaware of their status and most likely to infect their partners.<\/p>\n<p>Only 4% of the population were tested in 2010, many of these pregnant women who are offered the test as a routine part of their pregnancy care.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/hiv-testing\">most accurate HIV tests<\/a> are a simple blood test with results available from Better2Know within 2-3 working days. The test is nothing to worry about, but carrying the virus without knowing it is a far more serious problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from the Health Protection Agency show that one in five people offered an HIV test refuse to have the test. It is estimated that 96,500 people are HIV+ in the UK in 2010, with a quarter of them unaware of their status and most likely to infect their partners. Only 4% of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/4086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}