{"id":197941,"date":"2025-05-12T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-advocating-for-increased-leadership-to-combat-malnutrition-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:21:26","slug":"ghana-advocating-for-increased-leadership-to-combat-malnutrition-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-advocating-for-increased-leadership-to-combat-malnutrition-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Advocating for Increased Leadership to Combat Malnutrition in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Malnutrition remains a pervasive and complex public health concern in developing countries including Ghana, affecting the health, growth, and productivity of individuals while hindering overall socio-economic development of nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The prevalence of malnutrition in Ghana encompasses both undernutrition, characterised by stunting, wasting, and underweight, as well as overnutrition, which includes obesity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">According to the Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2018, 7 per cent of children&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505080479.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>Malnutrition remains a pervasive and complex public health concern in developing countries including Ghana, affecting the health, growth, and productivity of individuals while hindering overall socio-economic development of nations. The prevalence of malnutrition in Ghana encompasses both undernutrition, characterised by stunting, wasting, and underweight, as well as overnutrition, which includes obesity. According to the Ghana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197942,"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":[18610,258,256,12857,4508,4509,7393,8771,2251,257,254],"class_list":["post-197941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-advocating","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-combat","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-increased","tag-leadership","tag-malnutrition","tag-news","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\/197941","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=197941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}