{"id":38030,"date":"2022-11-03T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=38030"},"modified":"2022-11-03T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:39:49","slug":"can-pepfar-expand-access-to-sickle-cell-disease-treatment-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/11\/03\/can-pepfar-expand-access-to-sickle-cell-disease-treatment-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Can PEPFAR expand access to sickle cell disease treatment in Africa?"},"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-24370\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell-770x481.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell-360x225.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sickle-cell.com\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">300,000 children<\/a>\u00a0born with sickle cell disease, or SCD, each year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2201763\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">236,000<\/a> live in sub-Saharan Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devex.com\/news\/can-pepfar-expand-access-to-sickle-cell-disease-treatment-in-africa-103838\">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>Of the\u00a0300,000 children\u00a0born with sickle cell disease, or SCD, each year\u00a0236,000 live in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030","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=38030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38031,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38030\/revisions\/38031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}