Skin

More than a third of the country’s population are bleaching their skin , posing a threat to their health. This is contained in a World Health Organisation (WHO) 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. 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…