{"id":825,"date":"2023-12-03T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2023-12-03T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:48:00","slug":"who-report-more-than-a-third-of-ghanaians-bleaching-their-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"WHO report: More than a third of Ghanaians bleaching their skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than a third of the country\u2019s population are bleaching<\/a> their skin , posing a threat to their health.<\/p>\n

This is contained in a World Health Organisation (WHO)<\/a> Africa Region report which found that 39 out of 100 hundred Ghanaians are generally involved in skin bleaching and the widespread use of skin-lightening products is the cause of the rising figures in skin bleaching in the country.<\/p>\n

The prevalence of skin bleaching in other African countries ranges from 25 per cent of the population in Mali to 77 per cent in Nigeria, with other countries reporting intermediate rates such as 31.15 per cent in Zimbabwe; 32 per cent in South Africa; 50 per cent in Senegal and 66 per cent in Congo-Brazzaville.<\/p>\n

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