{"id":196963,"date":"2025-04-28T11:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-reduces-malaria-related-deaths-by-97-2014-2024-health-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T09:49:43","slug":"ghana-reduces-malaria-related-deaths-by-97-2014-2024-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-reduces-malaria-related-deaths-by-97-2014-2024-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Reduces Malaria-Related Deaths By 97% 2014-2024 &#8211; Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Ghana recorded a reduction in malaria-related deaths by 97 per cent between 2014 and 2024, the Minister of Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">He said that in 2024, the country recorded a reduction in malaria-related death by 51 per cent, 36 per cent drop in under-five malaria case facility rate, and a decline in both malaria admission and outpatient cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Mr Akandoh said this in a speech read on his behalf by the Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Samuel Kaba&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280083.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>Ghana recorded a reduction in malaria-related deaths by 97 per cent between 2014 and 2024, the Minister of Health, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has said. He said that in 2024, the country recorded a reduction in malaria-related death by 51 per cent, 36 per cent drop in under-five malaria case facility rate, and a decline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8601,4508,4509,5731,51233,5941,257,10446,254],"class_list":["post-196963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-malariarelated","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-reduces","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196963","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=196963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}