{"id":632,"date":"2009-03-25T09:13:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=632"},"modified":"2009-03-24T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T13:42:32","slug":"education-slowing-aids-in-sub-saharan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/03\/25\/education-slowing-aids-in-sub-saharan-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"education slowing AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2009\/03\/23\/Study_Education_slows_AIDS_in_Africa\/UPI-92541237837643\/\">United Press International<\/a> issued a release this morning about new findings on the spread of AIDS across sub-Saharan Africa, out of Penn State University.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S. sociologist says increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa might be lowering the number of new HIV infections among younger adults.<\/p>\n<p>If that is true, Penn State University Professor <span class=\"tpstyle\">David Baker<\/span> says it would suggest a shift in a decades-long trend in which a formal education was considered an AIDS risk factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before the 1990s, in the impoverished regions of sub-Saharan Africa, even modest amounts of education afforded males higher income, more leisure time and, for some males, greater access to commercial sex workers,&#8221; said Baker. &#8220;HIV-infected higher-status males then spread the infection to both educated and uneducated women, which moved the disease into the general population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Baker and graduate students <span class=\"tpstyle\">John Collins<\/span> and Juan Leon report their research findings in the U.N. journal Prospects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2009\/03\/23\/Study_Education_slows_AIDS_in_Africa\/UPI-92541237837643\/\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Press International issued a release this morning about new findings on the spread of AIDS across sub-Saharan Africa, out of Penn State University. A U.S. sociologist says increased schooling across sub-Saharan Africa might be lowering the number of new HIV infections among younger adults. If that is true, Penn State University Professor David Baker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[96,34,39113,1046],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-development","tag-education","tag-health","tag-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}