{"id":220441,"date":"2026-01-14T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-25000-tb-cases-unreported-ghana-risks-missing-who-target-dr-amenyo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:35:11","slug":"ghana-25000-tb-cases-unreported-ghana-risks-missing-who-target-dr-amenyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-25000-tb-cases-unreported-ghana-risks-missing-who-target-dr-amenyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: 25,000 TB Cases Unreported &#8230;Ghana Risks Missing WHO Target &#8211; Dr Amenyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">An estimated 25,000 people in Ghana are living with tuberculosis (TB) without being diagnosed, a situation that undermines the country&#8217;s efforts to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) target of ending TB as a public health challenge by 2030, the Deputy Programme Manager of the National TB Control Programme, Dr Rita Patricia Frimpong Amenyo, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Speaking at the opening of a training workshop on Drug-Resistant TB (DR-TB) in Accra yesterday, Dr Amenyo said: &#8220;Per WHO&#8217;s standards, Ghana is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140026.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 estimated 25,000 people in Ghana are living with tuberculosis (TB) without being diagnosed, a situation that undermines the country&#8217;s efforts to meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) target of ending TB as a public health challenge by 2030, the Deputy Programme Manager of the National TB Control Programme, Dr Rita Patricia Frimpong Amenyo, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621018:b8e67bc896b5ee81bbdf79e5324eed13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,53413,10498,4508,4509,6947,257,7349,254,7594,26398],"class_list":["post-220441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amenyo","tag-cases","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target","tag-unreported"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621018:b8e67bc896b5ee81bbdf79e5324eed13:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220441","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=220441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}