The Agona West Municipality recorded a total of 762 cases of teenage pregnancy cases mostly school girls age between 10 and 15 years in 2017 as against 678 cases in 2016. This came to light at the...
The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will be prosecuted since the practice is against the laws...
A midwife at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi is cautioning pregnant women against the consumption of alcoholic beverages, warning of serious consequences including deformities to their...
The Central Region, ranked as the second highest region with high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the country, has started witnessing a decline in the number of cases, the Regional Department of...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for the need for a resolute and cooperative leadership comprising the family, community, educationists, health professionals and religious leaders in...
A study conducted on Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) in Ghana has revealed that teachers lacked the requisite resources and time for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Education. It also...
Over 100 youth living in Israel, a fishing community located within Bukom, a suburb of Accra, have been vigorously sensitized on the dangers of illegal abortion under a project dubbed ‘Abortion...
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday condemning abuse and discrimination of women, but Washington refused to back one paragraph mentioning access to safe abortions....
The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has promised to concentrate on it’s efforts in keeping Adolescents safe and in good health by providing unimpeded access to their sexual and Reproductive...
The Executive Director of the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin, is dead. The cause of his death is yet to be known. Born on February 6, 1949, he attended Igbobi College...
Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions and intense public education campaign begin to show positive results. A total of...
Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organisation (WHO) show. The report highlights improvements countries have made on collecting vital...
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...
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean...
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...
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...
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just...
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just...
Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister of Health, has reiterated government’s commitment to work to improve healthcare delivery in the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)...
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...
