{"id":313697,"date":"2024-02-01T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=313697"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:22:00","slug":"ghana-circumcised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/health\/ghana-circumcised\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"5 percent of Ghanaian men not circumcised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ghana Statistical Service\u2019s 2022 Demographic Health Survey has revealed that approximately 5 percent of Ghanaian men are not circumcised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This equates to about 835,000 individuals in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statsghana.gov.gh\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statsghana.gov.gh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a>, which delves into various aspects including the prevalence of HIV\/AIDS-related behaviours, STDs, health insurance, and health coverage, also indicates that 95% of Ghanaian men aged 15\u201349 have undergone circumcision, with much of this attributed to religious, traditional, and cultural reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Acting Director of Demography at the Ghana Statistical Service, Godwin Odei Gyebi, said this comprehensive array of indicators will furnish valuable insights into the health and well-being of the populace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These insights will aid in assessing progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/\">More stories here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Statistical Service\u2019s 2022 Demographic Health Survey has revealed that approximately 5 percent of Ghanaian men are not circumcised. This equates to about 835,000 individuals in Ghana. The survey, which delves into various aspects including the prevalence of HIV\/AIDS-related behaviours, STDs, health insurance, and health coverage, also indicates that 95% of Ghanaian men aged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":313698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,22,114,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-general","category-general-news","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/circumcision-jpg.webp?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313699,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313697\/revisions\/313699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}