{"id":183788,"date":"2024-11-02T07:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-stop-stigmatising-people-suffering-from-infertility-ghanas-first-lady\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T07:04:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:04:12","slug":"ghana-stop-stigmatising-people-suffering-from-infertility-ghanas-first-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-stop-stigmatising-people-suffering-from-infertility-ghanas-first-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Stop Stigmatising People Suffering From Infertility &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s First Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Dar es Salaam \u2014 The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called for an end to the stigma surrounding infertility in Africa, commending Merck Foundation for its impactful initiatives focused on addressing gender-based violence, promoting health, and supporting the education of young girls across Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">She said through the &#8220;More than a Mother&#8221; campaign, Merck Foundation has fostered greater acceptance and openness around infertility in Ghana and Africa at large, reducing stigma and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411010300.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dar es Salaam \u2014 The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has called for an end to the stigma surrounding infertility in Africa, commending Merck Foundation for its impactful initiatives focused on addressing gender-based violence, promoting health, and supporting the education of young girls across Africa and Asia. She said through the &#8220;More than a Mother&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4508,4509,8226,31304,6669,257,6321,254,49878,8652,6566],"class_list":["post-183788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-infertility","tag-lady","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stigmatising","tag-stop","tag-suffering"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}