{"id":184729,"date":"2024-11-16T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-reports-on-hiv-aids-trends\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:54:01","slug":"namibia-health-ministry-reports-on-hiv-aids-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-health-ministry-reports-on-hiv-aids-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Health Ministry Reports On HIV-Aids Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>More than 7 000 children in Namibia are living with HIV-AIDS, the latest figures released by the Ministry of Health and Social Services shows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">The statistics released yesterday covers the better part of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The number of new HIV infections remains high, says the ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">While the number of deaths due to HIV-AIDS is decreasing, the ministry highlighted an increase in the deaths of people living with HIV due to tuberculosis (TB).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>&#8220;The number of AIDS related deaths is declining, but not fast&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140055.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 7 000 children in Namibia are living with HIV-AIDS, the latest figures released by the Ministry of Health and Social Services shows. The statistics released yesterday covers the better part of 2023. The number of new HIV infections remains high, says the ministry. While the number of deaths due to HIV-AIDS is decreasing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5731,7948,6857,4706,724,257,8327,254,12229],"class_list":["post-184729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-health","tag-hivaids","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}