{"id":8482,"date":"2023-07-18T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/?page_id=8482"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:11:47","slug":"hiv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Treatment options are available if positive although there is no effective cure.<\/li><li>Testing is done at Health Services with a blood test and is typically resulted within 2 days.<\/li><li>URI Health Promotion often offers free and anonymous HIV cheek swab testing 2-3 times a semester. Check our website for information on dates\/times.<\/li><li>The HIV test can be falsely negative soon after exposure, so repeat testing is needed if you have concern of exposure. <\/li><li>Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) can reduce your chance of getting HIV if you feel you are at risk. Please call to schedule an appointment to discuss PrEP.<\/li><li>HIV does not survive long outside of the human body (such as on surfaces).<\/li><li>It is not transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks or other insects.<\/li><li>It is not transmitted through saliva, tears or sweat.<\/li><li>It is not transmitted by hugging, shaking hands, sharing toilets, sharing dishes or closed mouth or &#8220;social&#8221; kissing with someone who has HIV.<\/li><li>It is not transmitted through other sexual activities that don&#8217;t involve the exchange of body fluids (for example, touching).<\/li><li>It is not transmitted through the air.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatment options are available if positive although there is no effective cure. Testing is done at Health Services with a blood test and is typically resulted within 2 days. URI Health Promotion often offers free and anonymous HIV cheek swab testing 2-3 times a semester. Check our website for information on dates\/times. The HIV test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4862,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8482\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/healthservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}