{"id":49393,"date":"2023-09-07T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=49393"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:37:38","slug":"sickle-cell-disease-thousands-of-black-blood-donors-needed-to-help-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/07\/sickle-cell-disease-thousands-of-black-blood-donors-needed-to-help-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Sickle cell disease: Thousands of black blood donors needed to help save lives"},"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-41909\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sadiq-donates-blood-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sadiq-donates-blood-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sadiq-donates-blood-360x203.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sadiq-donates-blood.jpeg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sickle cell, the UK&#8217;s fastest-growing genetic disorder, is more common within the black community and ethnically matched blood provides the best treatment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/sickle-cell-disease-thousands-of-black-blood-donors-needed-to-help-save-lives\/ar-AA1glT0b?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=973294b489ab446da9737ae61199208b&amp;ei=108\">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>Sickle cell, the UK&#8217;s fastest-growing genetic disorder, is more common within the black community and ethnically matched blood provides the best treatment&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49393","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\/10\/donate-blood.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393","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=49393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49394,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49393\/revisions\/49394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}