{"id":1831,"date":"2011-04-11T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:37:37","slug":"skin-bleaching-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/skin-bleaching-in-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin bleaching in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1832\" title=\"jamaica\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica-342x252.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica-90x65.jpg 90w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/jamaica.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamaican health officials are concerned the trend of skin bleaching has  reached dangerous levels in the slums of this Caribbean island nation.<\/p>\n<p>Poorer residents of Jamaica see lighter skin as their ticket to carving  out a new life among the elite classes in Jamaican society. Increasing  numbers are taking desperate measures to buy black market lightening  creams to use on their skin. These creams are not regulated by the  central government and contain many dangerous toxins.<\/p>\n<p>Some creams are illegal ointments smuggled into the country and sold by  street vendors and contain a number of dangerous substances ranging from  mercury to hydroquinone. Both substances are toxic and can cause  permanent disfigurement.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican Ministry of Health has not reported any official data on  the damage caused by skin-bleaching products. Dermatologists and other  health officials working in the country, however, report cases related  to skin bleaching disfigurements are on the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaican health officials are concerned the trend of skin bleaching has reached dangerous levels in the slums of this Caribbean island nation. Poorer residents of Jamaica see lighter skin as their ticket to carving out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1001,1000],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-jamaica","tag-skin-bleaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}