{"id":106506,"date":"2020-09-11T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106506"},"modified":"2020-09-11T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:01:18","slug":"who-congratulates-sri-lanka-for-eliminating-rubella-and-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv-and-congenital-syphilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/09\/11\/who-congratulates-sri-lanka-for-eliminating-rubella-and-mother-to-child-transmission-of-hiv-and-congenital-syphilis\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO congratulates Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella &amp; mother to child transmission of HIV &amp; congenital syphilis&#8221;&#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BB18USkD-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Thomson Reuters World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak at the WHO headquarters in Geneva Switzerland July 3, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini\/Pool via REUTERS\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Colombo, September 11 (newsin.asia) \u2013 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital syphilis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella &amp; mother to child transmission of HIV &amp; congenital syphilis, the Maldives for eliminating rubella and Myanmar for eliminating trachoma. These successes are testimonies that with science, solutions and solidarity we can stop diseases and save lives\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/maldives-sri-lanka-eliminate-measles-and-rubella-ahead-of-2023-target\/\">Sri Lanka and Maldives in July were verified for having eliminated rubella,<\/a>&nbsp;making them the first two countries in WHO South-East Asia Region to achieve measles and rubella elimination ahead of the 2023 target.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A country is verified as having eliminated measles and rubella when there is no evidence of endemic transmission of the measles and rubella viruses for over three years in the presence of a well-performing surveillance system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy NewsIn.Asia General Tedros on Twitter posted his message saying, I congratulate Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella &amp; mother to child transmission of HIV &amp; congenital syphilis&#8221;&#8230; Colombo, September 11 (newsin.asia) \u2013 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Sri Lanka for eliminating rubella and mother to child transmission of HIV and congenital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}