{"id":691,"date":"2004-11-15T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=691"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:12:37","slug":"campaign_yields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/campaign_yields\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Yields South Asian Bone Marrow Transplant Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/041105\/480\/waet10211050147\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/piaAwal270x130.jpg\" alt=\"piaAwal270x130.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"130\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Pia\nAwal&#8217;s search for a bone marrow transplant donor produced a match last week,\nand she will undergo the procedure later this month at Seattle&#8217;s Fred Hutchinson\nCancer Research Center.<\/p>\n\n<p>Awal, who has leukemia, inspired family and friends to\nlaunch a nationwide search for a match, which ultimately led to the addition\nof 12,442 profiles to the country&#8217;s bone marrow registry.<\/p>\n\n<p>The online portion of their campaign was truly impressive. I recall receiving\nnumerous e-mails about Awal&#8217;s plight from South Asians and non-South Asians alike.\nThe grueling ordeal was also documented on the web by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchpia.org\/htm\/message_from_pia.htm\" target=\"new\">Awal<\/a> and\nher fiance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchpia.org\/htm\/message_from_tim.htm\" target=\"new\">Tim\nDutta<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>USA Today\/AP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2004-11-06-pia-matched_x.htm\" target=\"new\">Bone\nMarrow Found for Woman Seeking South Asian Donors<\/a> <br>\nOfficial Site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchpia.org\/\" target=\"new\">MatchPia.org<\/a><br>\nNirali Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niralimagazine.com\/features\/0410_marrow.html\" target=\"new\">Hoping\nfor a Match<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pia Awal&#8217;s search for a bone marrow transplant donor produced a match last week, and she will undergo the procedure later this month at Seattle&#8217;s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Awal, who has leukemia, inspired family and friends to launch &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/campaign_yields\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}