{"id":41471,"date":"2023-01-26T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=41471"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:47:44","slug":"eliminating-neglected-diseases-in-africa-there-are-good-reasons-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/26\/eliminating-neglected-diseases-in-africa-there-are-good-reasons-for-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating neglected diseases in Africa: there are good reasons for hope"},"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-33950\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm-360x407.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Guinea-worm.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Togo had reason to celebrate in 2022 when it became the first country in the world\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/25\/togo-achieves-major-feat-of-eradicating-four-neglected-tropical-diseases\">to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/eliminating-neglected-diseases-in-africa-there-are-good-reasons-for-hope-198543\">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>Togo had reason to celebrate in 2022 when it became the first country in the world\u00a0to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/polio.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471","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=41471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41472,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions\/41472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}