{"id":1068,"date":"2011-10-31T18:12:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/senate-president-calls-for-population-decrease\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T18:12:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:12:17","slug":"senate-president-calls-for-population-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/senate-president-calls-for-population-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate President Calls For Population Decrease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The president of the Senate Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo has this morning at Muhima Hospital in Kigali called for increased efforts to restrain population growth in Rwanda. }} <\/p>\n<p>Ntawukuriryayo was speaking at the handover ceremony of the baby kits to the parents of the symbolic seven billionth children born at the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-868 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pop.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Senate president challenged medical practitioners to lead the campaign against the cultural beliefs that encourage couples to have a large number of children by championing and sensitizing on family planning methods.<\/p>\n<p>While at the event Ntawukuriryayo also explained that having a manageable and small family will help improve living conditions for the population.<\/p>\n<p>The world today clicked seven billion people, 12 years after hitting six billion in 1999. In Rwanda the population is nearing 11 million.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s State of the World Population report, People and Possibilities in the World of 7 Billion, looks at the dynamics behind the numbers. <\/p>\n<p>It explains the trends that are defining the world of 7 billion and documents actions that people in vastly different countries and circumstances are taking in their own communities to make the most of the world. <\/p>\n<p>The report also makes the case for sound planning and investing in people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The president of the Senate Dr. Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo has this morning at Muhima Hospital in Kigali called for increased efforts to restrain population growth in Rwanda. }} Ntawukuriryayo was speaking at the handover ceremony of the baby kits to the parents of the symbolic seven billionth children born at the hospital. Senate president challenged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[278],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-joram-muhoozi"],"bylines":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":278,"name":"Joram Muhoozi","slug":"joram-muhoozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}