{"id":186415,"date":"2024-12-12T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypts-hepatitis-programme-becomes-a-model-for-african-countries\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T09:47:08","slug":"africa-egypts-hepatitis-programme-becomes-a-model-for-african-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypts-hepatitis-programme-becomes-a-model-for-african-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Egypt&#8217;s Hepatitis Programme Becomes a Model for African Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Egypt&#8217;s Hepatitis Programme, also known as the &#8220;100 Million Healthier Lives&#8221; campaign has become a benchmark for African countries. The nationwide effort has led the country to become the first in 2024 to achieve Gold-tier certification for progress towards eliminating Hepatitis C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Viral hepatitis is a major public health threat in Africa, with morbidity and mortality rates comparable to major infectious diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria. An initial visit and pilot training programme&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412120024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Hepatitis Programme, also known as the &#8220;100 Million Healthier Lives&#8221; campaign has become a benchmark for African countries. The nationwide effort has led the country to become the first in 2024 to achieve Gold-tier certification for progress towards eliminating Hepatitis C. Viral hepatitis is a major public health threat in Africa, with morbidity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":186416,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,4380,6507,415,6989,13111,9019,257,7715,254],"class_list":["post-186415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-countries","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-hepatitis","tag-model","tag-news","tag-programme","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/186415","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}