{"id":294,"date":"2012-02-14T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-02-20T05:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T05:47:23","slug":"aids-highway-spreading-an-epidemic-through-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/14\/aids-highway-spreading-an-epidemic-through-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS Highway: Spreading an Epidemic through Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMkv0rbfYco&#038;feature=related<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyman.tv\/\">Journeyman Pictures<\/a> takes viewers on a tour of Botswana\u2019s Highway #1, nicknamed \u2018AIDS Highway,\u2019 and\u00a0explores the lives of families, doctors, pastors, and communities dealing with the AIDS\u00a0epidemic along the route. Human movement along the highway, along with high levels of prostitution at truck stops, spreads the disease through the African continent.\u00a0With limited resources and political interest, it is\u00a0difficult to educate and provide healthcare for\u00a0the large number of people affected by AIDS, and the disease continues to spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMkv0rbfYco&#038;feature=related Journeyman Pictures takes viewers on a tour of Botswana\u2019s Highway #1, nicknamed \u2018AIDS Highway,\u2019 and\u00a0explores the lives of families, doctors, pastors, and communities dealing with the AIDS\u00a0epidemic along the route. Human movement along the highway, along with high levels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/14\/aids-highway-spreading-an-epidemic-through-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6559],"tags":[8448,8446,8447,8427],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease","tag-africa","tag-aids","tag-botswana","tag-disease-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}