{"id":51657,"date":"2015-09-17T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_malaria_700_million_cases_stopped_in_africa\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:45:54","slug":"bbc_malaria_700_million_cases_stopped_in_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51657","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Malaria: &#39;700 million cases&#39; stopped in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 700 million cases of malaria have been prevented in Africa as a result of concerted efforts to tackle the disease since 2000, a study shows.<br \/>\nThe report published in the journal Nature showed that overall the number of infections fell by 50% across the continent.<br \/>\nBed nets were responsible for the vast majority of the decrease.<br \/>\nThere have also been calls to maintain funding to ensure the progress is not undone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-34260339\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 700 million cases of malaria have been prevented in Africa as a result of concerted efforts to tackle the disease since 2000, a study shows. The report published in the journal Nature showed that overall the number of infections<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51657\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,202,168,104,133,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}