{"id":33832,"date":"2022-01-24T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:16:56","slug":"how-covid-19-gave-african-countries-the-opportunity-to-improve-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/how-covid-19-gave-african-countries-the-opportunity-to-improve-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 gave African countries the opportunity to improve public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32893\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has tested Africa\u2019s public healthcare systems. It exposed weaknesses, gaps and inequalities \u2013 but also some potential solutions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/how-covid-19-gave-african-countries-the-opportunity-to-improve-public-health\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The COVID-19 pandemic has tested Africa\u2019s public healthcare systems. It exposed weaknesses, gaps and inequalities \u2013 but also some potential solutions.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ebola"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/hospital-south-africa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33833,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions\/33833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}