{"id":204080,"date":"2025-08-06T03:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-president-mahama-urges-african-leaders-to-build-resilient-self-sustaining-health-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:52:50","slug":"africa-president-mahama-urges-african-leaders-to-build-resilient-self-sustaining-health-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-president-mahama-urges-african-leaders-to-build-resilient-self-sustaining-health-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: President Mahama Urges African Leaders to Build Resilient, Self-Sustaining Health Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">President John Dramani Mahama has called on African leaders to take bold steps in building resilient and self-sustaining health systems across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He made the call at the opening of the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit held on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, in Accra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Addressing the gathering, President Mahama said the time had come for Africa to stop relying heavily on foreign aid to solve its health challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He stressed that African countries must become the authors of their own health&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508050419.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>President John Dramani Mahama has called on African leaders to take bold steps in building resilient and self-sustaining health systems across the continent. He made the call at the opening of the Africa Health Sovereignty Summit held on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, in Accra. Addressing the gathering, President Mahama said the time had come for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204081,"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":[258,256,4380,6935,4509,5731,4381,7780,257,2450,28130,52039,254,10564,6810],"class_list":["post-204080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-build","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-leaders","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-resilient","tag-selfsustaining","tag-south-africa-today","tag-systems","tag-urges"],"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\/204080","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=204080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}