{"id":234704,"date":"2026-01-01T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/events\/world-chagas-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:44:44","slug":"world-chagas-disease","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/allevents\/world-chagas-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"World Chagas Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">body.kc-css-system .kc-css-471635{margin-bottom: 20px;}<\/style>\n<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-562325 kc_row\">\n<div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\">\n<div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\">\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-578964 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\">\n<div class=\"kc-col-container\">\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-471635 kc_shortcode kc_single_image\">\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldpatientsalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-Chagas-Disease-banner.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" \/>    <\/div>\n<div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-407014 kc_text_block\">\n<p>Chagas disease, also known as &#8220;silent or silenced disease&#8221;, affects mainly poor people without access to health care or people without a political voice. The disease progress slowly and often shows an asymptomatic clinical course. Without treatment, Chagas disease can lead to severe cardiac and digestive alterations and become fatal. Raising awareness of the disease is essential to improve the rates of early treatment and cure, together with the interruption of its transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The World Chagas Disease Day was celebrated for the first time in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-chagas-disease-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Chagas Disease Day (who.int)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chagas disease, also known as &#8220;silent or silenced disease&#8221;, affects mainly poor people without access to health care or people without a political voice. The disease progress slowly and often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[18],"class_list":["post-234704","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/234704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234704"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldpatientsalliance.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=234704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}