{"id":26415,"date":"2023-04-04T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/04\/04\/autism-awareness-in-ivory-coast-little-help-and-funding-to-help-with-care-and-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:00:08","slug":"autism-awareness-in-ivory-coast-little-help-and-funding-to-help-with-care-and-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/04\/04\/autism-awareness-in-ivory-coast-little-help-and-funding-to-help-with-care-and-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism awareness in Ivory Coast: Little help and funding to help with care and diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Between taboo, stigmatisation and the cost of treatment, the management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remains difficult in Ivory Coast. The WHO estimates that 1% of the population is affected, but no official study has been conducted in the country. The structures for children with disabilities are almost non-existent, and the medical profession has very little training in the treatment of autism. The hospital in Bouak\u00e9, in central Ivory Coast, and the NGO Mindful Change launched a community mental health project in 2018. On the occasion of International Autism Awareness Day, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s correspondents Sophie Lamotte and Ange Nomenyo went to meet the doctors who make care accessible to the most isolated.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between taboo, stigmatisation and the cost of treatment, the management of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remains difficult in Ivory Coast. The WHO estimates that 1% of the population is affected, but no official study has been conducted in the country. The structures for children with disabilities are almost non-existent, and the medical profession has very &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}