{"id":276782,"date":"2026-06-24T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276782\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:36:09","slug":"sexual-health-experts-raise-concerns-over-new-hiv-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276782\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual health experts raise concerns over new HIV cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the number of HIV cases in the city has fallen sharply over the decades, recent data is causing concern.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent city health data shows that New York reported 1,791 new HIV cases in 2024. That&#8217;s a 5.4% increase from the year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Local health officials warn that this increase comes at a time when the federal government is threatening access to HIV testing, treatment, and prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Wirth, president and CEO of Amida Care, a city nonprofit specializing in HIV care and sexual health, joined NY1 anchor Shannan Ferry to discuss how New York can drive down the number of HIV cases.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the number of HIV cases in the city has fallen sharply over the decades, recent data is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2367,7473,9,24,11,10,2368,37641,2370,2369,200],"class_list":["post-276782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-live-at-noon","tag-ctv","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-all-day","tag-nicholas-loud","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-shannan-ferry","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}