{"id":193308,"date":"2025-03-11T06:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-beat-breast-cancer-launched-to-improve-early-detection-diagnosis-treatment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T04:41:07","slug":"ghana-beat-breast-cancer-launched-to-improve-early-detection-diagnosis-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-beat-breast-cancer-launched-to-improve-early-detection-diagnosis-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: &#8216;Beat Breast Cancer&#8217; Launched to Improve Early Detection, Diagnosis, Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">An initiative dubbed &#8220;Beat Breast Cancer&#8221; aimed at tackling breast cancer in Ghana was on Wednesday launched in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The &#8220;Beat Breast Cancer&#8221; initiative seeks to improve early detection, diagnosis, and treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The project is initiated by Jhpiego Ghana with funding from Pfizer Foundation, and support from the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a speech read on his behalf the Minister of Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, emphasised the need for access to quality diagnosis and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100390.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>An initiative dubbed &#8220;Beat Breast Cancer&#8221; aimed at tackling breast cancer in Ghana was on Wednesday launched in Accra. The &#8220;Beat Breast Cancer&#8221; initiative seeks to improve early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The project is initiated by Jhpiego Ghana with funding from Pfizer Foundation, and support from the Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193309,"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":[258,256,5065,15486,6808,23424,26128,7473,4508,4509,6449,6456,257,254,12416],"class_list":["post-193308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-breast","tag-cancer","tag-detection","tag-diagnosis","tag-early","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-improve","tag-launched","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment"],"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\/193308","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=193308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}