{"id":184760,"date":"2024-11-17T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T08:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-health-ministry-launches-national-strategy-for-sickle-cell-disease-vaccine-policy\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T08:51:23","slug":"ghana-health-ministry-launches-national-strategy-for-sickle-cell-disease-vaccine-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-health-ministry-launches-national-strategy-for-sickle-cell-disease-vaccine-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Health Ministry Launches National Strategy for Sickle Cell Disease, Vaccine Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">To advance the treatment of sickle cell disease in the country, the Ministry of Health has launched the National Sickle Cell Disease Strategy for 2024 to 2028, along with a National Vaccine Policy in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This initiative aims to reduce the burden of sickle cell disease by strengthening preventive and therapeutic services and promoting community education to address stigma and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Dr Darius Osei, an advisor to the Health Minister, emphasised the burden of sickle cell disease on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411130383.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>To advance the treatment of sickle cell disease in the country, the Ministry of Health has launched the National Sickle Cell Disease Strategy for 2024 to 2028, along with a National Vaccine Policy in Accra. This initiative aims to reduce the burden of sickle cell disease by strengthening preventive and therapeutic services and promoting community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184761,"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":[258,256,10129,5784,4508,4509,5731,5957,6857,6687,257,6470,14818,254,6986,13567],"class_list":["post-184760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cell","tag-disease","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-launches","tag-ministry","tag-national","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-sickle","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-vaccine"],"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\/184760","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=184760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}