{"id":3709,"date":"2021-10-22T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2021-10-22T14:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T12:21:23","slug":"an-african-response-to-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/news\/an-african-response-to-a-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"An African response to a global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:1200px;--awb-max-height:675px;--awb-align-self:flex-start;--awb-width:100%;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VelV_l8oYj4?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0&amp;rel=0&amp;modestbranding=1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:30px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two text-cap\" style=\"--awb-font-size:22px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;font-size:1em;--fontSize:22;line-height:1.15;\"><strong>An African response to a global crisis<\/strong><\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>When the global COVID-19 pandemic hit, South Africa responded the the challenge, rose the occasion, and contributed to the solution.<\/p>\n<p><em>In this first installment of a four-part miniseries we look at how Wits VIDA championed Africa\u2019s participation in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine but also how these trials gave the local community the opportunity to be a part of something great life changing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VelV_l8oYj4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wits VIDA YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,39,82],"tags":[12,13,34],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-news","category-articles","category-blog","tag-covid-19","tag-vaccine-coverage","tag-vaccine-rollout","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wits-vida.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}