{"id":31532,"date":"2021-04-14T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31532"},"modified":"2021-04-14T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T23:01:53","slug":"senegal-the-hiv-success-story-thats-failing-gay-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31532","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: The HIV success story that\u2019s failing gay men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Senegal has long been praised for its progressive stance on AIDS prevention and today has one of the lowest levels of HIV in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>But despite this success in recent years rates have risen within the gay community \u2013 more than one in four are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>West Africa Correspondent Ben Hunte reports on the struggle to protect people from HIV in a country where homosexuality is illegal and carries a five-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Producer Naomi Scherbel-Ball<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Filmed by Ayo Bello<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i class=\"ssrcss-po6dm6-ItalicText e5tfeyi1\">Edited by Ben Hunte<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-56751289\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal has long been praised for its progressive stance on AIDS prevention and today has one of the lowest levels of HIV in Africa. But despite this success in recent years rates have risen within the gay community \u2013 more than one in four are HIV positive. West Africa Correspondent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09dpt55.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}