{"id":435,"date":"2020-03-24T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/?p=435"},"modified":"2020-03-24T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:13:56","slug":"tb-in-the-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/24\/tb-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"TB in the time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we commemorate World TB Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must also recognize the powerful interactions between this new pandemic and existing epidemics. If we don\u2019t act to mitigate the threat, COVID-19 could lead to an upsurge in TB deaths. If we take an integrated approach, leveraging the infrastructure and resources we\u2019ve already invested in and moving swiftly to strengthen the health system as a whole, we can step up the fight against both threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20200323132125-7afco\/\">Thomas Reuters Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we commemorate World TB Day&#8230; &#8220;We must also recognize the powerful interactions between this new pandemic and existing epidemics. If we don\u2019t act to mitigate the threat, COVID-19 could lead to an upsurge in TB deaths. If we take an integrated approach, leveraging the infrastructure and resources we\u2019ve already invested in and moving swiftly to strengthen the health system as a whole, we can step up the fight against both threats.&#8221; &nbsp; Read Full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootsafrica.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}