{"id":700,"date":"2009-04-08T13:19:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2009-04-08T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:19:49","slug":"some_good_news_in_the_world_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News In The World Of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/07\/bush-aids-fight-saved-11-million-study-says\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, President George W. Bush&#8217;s campaign to fight aids has reduced the mortality rate of the disease by ten per cent in fifteen targeted countries.&nbsp; According to a recent study, 1.1 million lives were saved by the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The study by two Stanford University doctors showed the treatment part of PEPFAR, the President&#8217;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which involves making drug treatment available to about 2 million people, has shown solid success while the prevention efforts under the program have not yet produced the same concrete results.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The program emphasized treatment more than prevention.&nbsp; The study showed that the rate of infection in the fifteen targeted countries had not changed, but the survival rate had.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure how this would apply to&nbsp;dealing with aids in America, because I believe in America it is easier to get the necessary treatment, but in Africa, making treatment available has made a significant difference.<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, President George W. Bush&#8217;s campaign to fight aids has reduced the mortality rate of the disease by ten per cent in fifteen targeted countries.&nbsp; According to a recent study, 1.1 million lives were saved by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}