{"id":1185,"date":"2021-01-30T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2021-01-30T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:50:30","slug":"treating-sickle-cell-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Treating Sickle Cell Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20200911_115611_DSCF3840.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20200911_115611_DSCF3840.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20200911_115611_DSCF3840-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3oF6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Deutsche Welle, World in Progress  (opens in a new tab)\">Deutsche Welle, World in Progress <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sickle cell disease is one of the world&#8217;s most common hereditary blood disorders. Each year, an estimated 300,000 children are born with it \u2014 the majority of them in Africa, but also in India, the Middle East and Mediterranean countries. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt went to Tunisia to speak to a doctor who wants to make a difference in treating patients.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reporting was funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/health-de.journalismgrants.org\/projects\/sickle-cell-disease-latest-life-saving-treatments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"European Journalism Centre via its Global Health Journalism Grant Programme for Germany (opens in a new tab)\">European Journalism Centre via its Global Health Journalism Grant Programme for Germany<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/3oF6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Listen to the report here! (opens in a new tab)\">Listen to the report here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deutsche Welle, World in Progress Sickle cell disease is one of the world&#8217;s most common hereditary blood disorders. Each year, an estimated 300,000 children are born with it \u2014 the majority of them in Africa, but also in India, the Middle East and Mediterranean countries. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt went to Tunisia to speak to a doctor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,171],"tags":[312,313,314,315,250,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}