{"id":42213,"date":"2023-02-15T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T09:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=42213"},"modified":"2023-02-15T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T09:47:16","slug":"we-live-in-fear-because-of-our-skin-malawians-with-albinism-demand-action-to-reduce-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/we-live-in-fear-because-of-our-skin-malawians-with-albinism-demand-action-to-reduce-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We live in fear because of our skin\u2019: Malawians with albinism demand action to reduce cancer risk"},"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-39291\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/albinsim-300x231.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/albinsim-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/albinsim.jpeg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the early hours of Christmas Eve, William Kumwimbi, a young man with albinism, breathed his last. He had been bedridden with skin cancer for several months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/14\/malawi-albinism-demand-action-to-reduce-cancer-risk-acc\">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>In the early hours of Christmas Eve, William Kumwimbi, a young man with albinism, breathed his last. He had been bedridden with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42213","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\/2023\/02\/albino-skin-cancer.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42213","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=42213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42215,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42213\/revisions\/42215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}