{"id":457,"date":"2006-09-06T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/09\/06\/we_need_to_talk\/"},"modified":"2006-09-06T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T13:48:03","slug":"we_need_to_talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/09\/06\/we_need_to_talk\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/05\/AR2006090501134.html\">In one country<\/a>], instituted a nationwide needle-exchange program; they distribute condoms free at health clinics around the country, and they have methadone treatment centers in every province.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026[A doctor there] established what he called a &#8220;triangular&#8221; clinic, which eased the AIDS stigma by treating addiction and sexually transmitted diseases as well. The innovative program caught the eye of [ the country\u2019s] health minister, and by 2003 [the doctor] had taken it nationwide. Today he has triangular clinics in 67\u2026 cities and 57 prisons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What country might this be?  Some amoral Scandinavian nation or perhaps the free loving France?  No, it would be Iran.<\/p>\n<p>As David Ignatius says, we need to talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[In one country], instituted a nationwide needle-exchange program; they distribute condoms free at health clinics around the country, and they have methadone treatment centers in every province. \u2026[A doctor there] established what he called a &#8220;triangular&#8221; clinic, which eased the AIDS stigma by treating addiction and sexually transmitted diseases as well. The innovative program caught&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/09\/06\/we_need_to_talk\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}