{"id":131658,"date":"2015-07-08T06:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131658"},"modified":"2015-07-08T06:39:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T06:39:45","slug":"ghana-finds-treatment-for-onchocerciasis-and-elephantiasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131658","title":{"rendered":"Ghana finds treatment for Onchocerciasis and Elephantiasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in partnership with the Bonn University of Germany and others, has found a treatment for Onchocerciasispopularly called River Blindness<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Lx5xzA9rDzrXZEQGHMYBkUXMSLHgaLO2&#8243;] The team also found a treatment for Lymphoedema or elephantiasis.<br id=\"0.2012861173134297\" \/><br id=\"0.11432835017330945\" \/>The breakthrough has since, received international recognition and awards such as the prestigious German Memento Price Award for this year in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor William Otoo Ellis, who disclosed this at the 49th Congregation of the KNUST in Kumasi said, the feat has earned KNUST a three-million euro grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research for the establishment of Elephantiasis Management Clinic in some endemic communities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0GBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in partnership with the Bonn University of Germany and others, has found a treatment for Onchocerciasispopularly called River Blindness [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Lx5xzA9rDzrXZEQGHMYBkUXMSLHgaLO2&#8243;] The team also found a treatment for Lymphoedema or elephantiasis.The breakthrough has since, received international recognition and awards such as the prestigious German Memento Price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":110596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-131658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}