{"id":4318,"date":"2015-03-11T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2015-08-28T16:13:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:13:27","slug":"in-brong-ahafo-breast-care-screening-campaign-comes-in-time-for-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/in-brong-ahafo-breast-care-screening-campaign-comes-in-time-for-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In Brong Ahafo, Breast Care Screening Campaign Comes In Time  For International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 141px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 214.134276% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/165932274?et=WMMySBUQR-dgU2uaIQpPfQ&amp;sig=63uhx11m1tgjtKtxh3zXJmuBf-StOmY9wPWNRA2Cgjk=\" width=\"141\" height=\"303\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/165932274\" target=\"_blank\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span lang=\"en\">Breast Care International (BCI), an NGO dedicated to the establishment of breast cancer awareness centres throughout the country, organized a campaign in Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region, just two days before International Women\u2019s Day celebrated on March 8th. The program, which was dubbed Independence Day, was sponsored by the African Women&#8217;s Development (AWDF) and assisted by Peace And Love Hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Addressing attendees who came from Nkoranza and the surrounding towns, Beatrice Wiafe Addai, President of BCI and C.E.O of Peace and Love Hospitals described the devastating effects of breast cancer on the nation and the world at large. Like many of their counterparts in Africa, Ghanaian women are slow to seek care for breast health issues due to superstition, lack of understanding about the disease\u2019s early symptoms and reluctance and fear, Dr. Addai said. A number of women hope for a self-cure or simply just entrust it to divine intervention, she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Various forms of diagnoses of the disease and the techniques of breast self-examination were explained with strong encouragement for women to undertake monthly self examinations. Dr. Addai encouraged women to seek expert medical care if they detect anything abnormal with their breasts as prompt as possible. Her message was followed by a session of clinical breast screening, which saw the participation a substantial number of women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The Municipal Chief Executive of Nkoranza and the Paramount chief, Nana Kudom Agyemang praised BCI and Peace and Love Hospitals for instituting grassroots education and breast screenings to create and sustain awareness about breast cancer in rural and urban communities, whilst promoting early detection and prompt treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. It is also the principal cause of death from cancer among women. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one woman dies from the disease every 69 seconds somewhere around the world resulting in more than 1,300,000 deaths globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">BCI is an AWDF grantee.<\/span>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[443,444,445,446,447,448,404,449,450,442],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ahafo","tag-breast","tag-brong","tag-cancer","tag-care","tag-day","tag-health","tag-international","tag-nkoranza","tag-womens"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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