{"id":176615,"date":"2024-07-15T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-popular-health-mobile-clinic-brings-health-to-communities-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:20:01","slug":"zambia-popular-health-mobile-clinic-brings-health-to-communities-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-popular-health-mobile-clinic-brings-health-to-communities-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Popular Health Mobile Clinic Brings Health to Communities in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Prompted by the experience of a recent cholera outbreak, the Socialist Party of Zambia launched a mobile clinic in the effort of making health care more accessible to everyone<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"82\">The World Health Organization <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/cholera#:~:text=Cholera%20is%20a%20disease%20of,increase%20the%20risk%20of%20cholera.\" rel=\"noopener\">defines<\/a> cholera as a &#8220;disease of poverty&#8221;. It thrives in conditions of poor hygiene and sanitation services, overcrowding, malnourishment, and weak public health services. A third of the Zambian population has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/zambia\/water-sanitation-and-hygiene\" rel=\"noopener\">access<\/a> to basic sanitation services, while a quarter have access to basic hygiene&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by the experience of a recent cholera outbreak, the Socialist Party of Zambia launched a mobile clinic in the effort of making health care more accessible to everyone The World Health Organization defines cholera as a &#8220;disease of poverty&#8221;. It thrives in conditions of poor hygiene and sanitation services, overcrowding, malnourishment, and weak public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6561,10856,7103,5731,6261,257,11271,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-176615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brings","tag-clinic","tag-communities","tag-health","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-popular","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}