{"id":203325,"date":"2025-07-26T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-break-silence-educate-adolescents-for-informed-choices-evans-sinkari\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T13:31:53","slug":"ghana-break-silence-educate-adolescents-for-informed-choices-evans-sinkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-break-silence-educate-adolescents-for-informed-choices-evans-sinkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Break Silence, Educate Adolescents for Informed Choices &#8211; Evans Sinkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Interim Country Director of Right to Play, Mr Evans Sinkari, has urged stakeholders in health, education, and other sectors to join forces in tackling the stigma faced by adolescents seeking information on sexual and reproductive health (SRH).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">According to him, SRH issues are rarely discussed openly, particularly in rural communities, leaving many adolescents uninformed about their health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Imagine a young adolescent approaching a health worker to ask about condoms or menstrual cycles. Often,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507260006.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>The Interim Country Director of Right to Play, Mr Evans Sinkari, has urged stakeholders in health, education, and other sectors to join forces in tackling the stigma faced by adolescents seeking information on sexual and reproductive health (SRH). According to him, SRH issues are rarely discussed openly, particularly in rural communities, leaving many adolescents uninformed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203326,"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":[13226,258,256,6913,18226,14715,19741,4508,4509,10384,257,6992,51965,254],"class_list":["post-203325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-adolescents","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-break","tag-choices","tag-educate","tag-evans","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-informed","tag-news","tag-silence","tag-sinkari","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\/203325","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=203325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}