{"id":191146,"date":"2025-02-11T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-1500-lesotho-health-workers-sent-home-after-u-s-aid-suspended\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:01:40","slug":"lesotho-1500-lesotho-health-workers-sent-home-after-u-s-aid-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-1500-lesotho-health-workers-sent-home-after-u-s-aid-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: 1,500 Lesotho Health Workers Sent Home After U.S. Aid Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em> Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 1,500 health workers, including doctors and nurses, have been directly impacted by the suspension of US-funded health programs in Lesotho, affecting HIV\/AIDS treatment, TB prevention, and maternal health services.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho, which has one of the world&#8217;s highest HIV prevalence rates, faces potential reversal of years of health progress, with 240,000 people currently on antiretroviral treatment.<\/li>\n<li>The government is scrambling to mitigate the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services About 1,500 health workers, including doctors and nurses, have been directly impacted by the suspension of US-funded health programs in Lesotho, affecting HIV\/AIDS treatment, TB prevention, and maternal health services. Lesotho, which has one of the world&#8217;s highest HIV prevalence rates, faces potential reversal of years of health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00510903:15b386aa2387eed12b92538b33068006:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7828,5731,8849,4717,1407,257,254,4314,2282,6498],"class_list":["post-191146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-health","tag-home","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended","tag-u-s","tag-workers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00510903:15b386aa2387eed12b92538b33068006:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191146","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=191146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}