{"id":40149,"date":"2022-12-01T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/cyclists-come-out-in-numbers-to-participate-in-the-second-annual-vice-chancellors-cycle-challenge-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:14:58","slug":"world-aids-day-2022-rock-the-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/world-aids-day-2022-rock-the-ribbon\/","title":{"rendered":"World Aids Day 2022 &#8211; Rock the Ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"40149\" class=\"elementor elementor-40149\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c891cce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c891cce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a345ff7\" data-id=\"6a345ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71cfc1c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71cfc1c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">World Aids Day is commemorated annually on 1 December. This year\u2019s theme for World Aids Day is \u201cRock the Ribbon.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sol Plaatje University<\/span><\/a> lights a candle in the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Foyer to raise awareness and to remember the many lives lost to Aids.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Aids Trust is committed to stopping new cases of HIV, securing the rights of people living with HIV, and fighting stigmatization and discrimination of HIV\/AIDS.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to research, nearly 40% of new HIV infections are transmitted by people who don\u2019t know they have the virus. For people with undiagnosed HIV, testing is the first step in maintaining a healthy life and preventing HIV transmission.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Centre for Disease Control recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once as part of their routine health care and advises regular HIV screening of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Aids Day is commemorated annually on 1 December. This year\u2019s theme for World Aids Day is \u201cRock the Ribbon.\u201d On this day, Sol Plaatje University lights a candle in the Vice-Chancellor\u2019s Foyer to raise awareness and to remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/world-aids-day-2022-rock-the-ribbon\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-40149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40161,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions\/40161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}