{"id":150790,"date":"2019-09-09T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150790"},"modified":"2019-09-09T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T18:15:55","slug":"nigerian-born-german-woman-calls-for-help-in-cancer-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=150790","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian-born German Woman Calls For Help In Cancer Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Nigerian-born-German-Woman-Calls-For-Help-In-Cancer-Fight.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Astrid, a 42-year-old woman with Nigerian and German parents suffering from leukemia or blood cancer, may die any moment from now over her inability to get a stem-cell donor for her treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Only three per cent of stem-cell donors globally are mixed race and only 23 per cent are black, making it difficult for leukemia sufferers to access stem-cell donors in comparison to their Caucasian counterparts, who are 70 per cent guaranteed of a suitable donor.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the BBC, Astrid whose father hails from Abia State said, \u201cMy father is from Abia State in Nigeria while my mother is from Bavaria, Germany. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had the feeling it was a joke, there\u2019s no way its leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot being able to see my children grow up is unbearable to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Astrid has now launched a global search for a donor to save her life as well as a global campaign urging black and bi-racial people to become stem-cell donors in order to save lives of mixed-race sufferers of the cancer.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrid, a 42-year-old woman with Nigerian and German parents suffering from leukemia or blood cancer, may die any moment from now over her inability to get a stem-cell donor for her treatment. Only three per cent of stem-cell donors globally are mixed race and only 23 per cent are black, making it difficult for leukemia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[13208,243],"class_list":["post-150790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cancer","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}