{"id":90357,"date":"2026-06-07T16:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90357"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:23:55","slug":"the-women-forced-to-risk-death-so-their-babies-can-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/07\/the-women-forced-to-risk-death-so-their-babies-can-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The women forced to risk death so their babies can live"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24YcAZ.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Sophia, 31 and eight-months pregnant, collecting water at a hand-pump borehole in Atampiisi (Basile Ouedraogo\/WaterAid)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In northern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ghana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Ghana<\/a>\u2018s Upper East Region,\u00a0<a title=\"I\u2019m forever grateful my baby and I got the hospital care we needed \u2013 mothers across Africa need our help\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/mother-baby-pregnancy-care-africa-b2940802.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">the road to giving birth<\/a>\u00a0can be treacherous.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Women<\/a> in labour have to cross rivers by canoe to give birth, or walk for hours <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/the-women-forced-to-risk-death-so-their-babies-can-live\/ar-AA24YXGy?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=0f1510570ac24d80c3795f700d086a2a&ei=6\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In northern\u00a0Ghana\u2018s Upper East Region,\u00a0the road to giving birth\u00a0can be treacherous.\u00a0Women in labour have to cross rivers by canoe to give birth,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pregnant-farmer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90365,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90357\/revisions\/90365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}