Ghana National Population Policy
Demographic experts are concerned that Ghana’s population is growing at a faster than normal rate. The National Population Council (PNC) has therefore proposed that government starts implementation...
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NDPC Advocates National Budget For Contraceptives In Ghana
The National Development Planning Commission is advocating a national budget allocation for contraceptives. Ghana’s population has increased by 9.1 million from the 2006 census of 18.9 million to...
Teenage Pregnancy Reduces In Atwima-Kwanwoma District
Stepped up reproductive health education in the Atwima-Kwanwoma District is paying off as teenage pregnancy drops in the area. The District Health Director, Mrs. Comfort Suglo, said it went down by...
Too Early, Too Many
Too early, too many Salamatu expresses her wish to have limited or spaced the number of children she had had “I work but the income I make is not enough to take care of my family,” says...
Fight Against Teenage Pregnancy Intensified In Ashanti Region
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the training of more young people for reproductive health advocacy. This is being done under the...
Ashanti Ups Effort To Fight Teen Sex and Pregnancy
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the training of more young people for reproductive health advocacy. This is being done under the...
Ghana AIDS Commission Gets New Board
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the re-constituted 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, with a charge on the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise...
Population Council Wants Sex Education For Adolescents Intensified
Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, the Executive Director of the National Population Council has called for intensified sex education for teenagers to protect them against pregnancy and sexually transmitted...
NPC Solicits Commitment, Support of Partners
The National Population Council (NPC) has held a stakeholders’ forum to solicit commitment from its local and international partners to support it to carry out its mandate. Mandated to advise the...
GHS Launches Adolescent Health Service and Policy
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday launched Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy to provide the framework within which health provision and other related interventions for adolescents...
GLOW/BRO Camp 2017 Equips B/A Youth In Reproductive Health, Entrepreneurial Skills
Some 30 teenagers and young adults in communities across the Brong-Ahafo Region, have benefitted from a five-day adolescent reproductive health/capacity building seminar, under the auspices of...
GLOW/BRO Camp 2017 Equips B/A Youth In Adolescent Reproductive Health, Entrepreneurial Skills
Some 30 teens and young adults in communities across the Brong-Ahafo Region have benefitted from a five-day adolescent reproductive health/capacity building seminar, under the auspices of UK-aid....
Stakeholders Discuss Findings On Reproductive Health Programs
A national dissemination meeting on the Ghana Adolescent Reproductive Health (GHARH) Project, funded by the United Kingdom Agency for International Development (UKaid) has been held in Sunyani. It...
Ghana Launches 2016 State of World Population Report
The Ghana office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched the State of World Population in Accra. Annually, the UNFPA compiles a report on the state of the world’s population with...
World State Report Calls For Investment In Girls
The 2016 World State Report has called for investment in girl’s education, health, and leadership skills to enable them to fully realise their potential to harness the nation’s demographic...