{"id":280305,"date":"2011-02-04T22:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T22:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/04\/obour-appointed-national-tb-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T22:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T22:19:18","slug":"obour-appointed-national-tb-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/04\/obour-appointed-national-tb-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Obour appointed National TB Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"61.0660869565\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5152b9a2our_300x188.jpg\" align=\"left\" title=\"Obour. Photo: Ghana Music.com\" class=\"caption\" \/>Hiplife musician Bice Osei Kuffuor known in showbiz as Obour has been appointed by the National Tuberculosis Control Programme as its ambassador for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassadorial role runs from 2011 to 2013 and during that period, Obour will spearhead a national campaign to educate and create awareness on the deadly but curable disease that is gaining grounds in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Obour confirmed the appointment in an interview with Hitz Entertainment News and said that after embarking on several campaigns including a campaign on road safety, this is one project that is really dear to his heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year I was approached by the National Tuberculosis Control Programme. They\u2019ve seen some of my works; like my road safety campaign, my Ghana Reads campaign and they believe that Tuberculosis is one project that is being under publicized\u2026 Upon schooling myself\u2026I realize that TB is as deadly as HIV is,\u201d he narrated.<\/p>\n<p>Obour disclosed that, he will be releasing a song and a video in Sunyani on March 24 which happens to be World TB Day to help his nationwide campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an epidemic that needs to be spoken about. So I, together with the National Tuberculosis Control Programme designed a concept, [recorded] a song and a music video\u2026 this year on the 24th of March will be launching this project in Sunyani on World TB Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s World TB Day will be under the theme: On the move against Tuberculosis \u2013 Innovate to accelerate action.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year intensive nationwide campaign will seek to educate, create awareness on TB with a core theme that TB is curable.<\/p>\n<p>Obour explained that his focus will be \u201cTo educate the masses on TB, the fact that TB is curable, the fact that TB treatment is free and it is available here in Ghana and the fact that if somebody has TB and the person is on his or her drugs for two weeks the TB is no more transferable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<br \/><!-- ca-pub-9860319315375096\/Ghana_Music_Banner_subcat_article_pages -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/5152b9a2our_300x188-150x94.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamusic.com\/news\/top-stories\/obour-appointed-national-tb-ambassador\/index.html\" title=\"Obour appointed National TB Ambassador\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obour appointed National TB Ambassador<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hiplife musician Bice Osei Kuffuor known in showbiz as Obour has been appointed by the National Tuberculosis Control Programme as its ambassador for the next two years. The ambassadorial role runs from 2011 to 2013 and during that period, Obour will spearhead a national campaign to educate and create awareness on the deadly but curable disease that is gaining grounds in the country. Obour confirmed the appointment in an interview with Hitz Entertainment News and said that after embarking on several campaigns including a campaign on road safety, this is one project that is really dear to his heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obour appointed National TB Ambassador - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/04\/obour-appointed-national-tb-ambassador\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obour appointed National TB Ambassador - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Hiplife musician Bice Osei Kuffuor known in showbiz as Obour has been appointed by the National Tuberculosis Control Programme as its ambassador for the next two years. 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