Paramount Chief of Katiu, Pe Ayikode Zangbeo Atoge IV, one of the chiefs addressing the durbar Many Anthropologists who study the cultural variation among humans have identified Culture as a powerful...
Statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) show that reported cases of abortion among adolescents in the Brong Ahafo Region increased from 1,161 in 2015 to 1,224 last year. This represents 12.7...
The US has withdrawn funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that promotes family planning in more than 150 countries. The state department said the UNFPA "supports or...
The US has withdrawn funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that promotes family planning in more than 150 countries. The state department said the UNFPA “supports or...
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612 cases of...
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612 cases of...
Brong Ahafo Region recorded 1,224 cases of unsafe abortion among teenagers in the 2016, the Ghana Health Service report has revealed. The report said the figure represented 12.7 percent of 9,612...
Mrs Samira Bawumia, wife of the Vice President, has expressed concern about the rate of pregnancy among adolescent girls in Ghana. Though adolescent pregnancies declined from 12.1 percent in 2015 to...
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...
Teenage girls in basic and junior high schools at Gnani, a community in the Yendi District of the Northern Region, are rejecting sexual abstinence for family planning methods to prevent unwanted...
37 maternal deaths were recorded in the Upper East Region in 2016, according to the regional health directorate. The region recorded 37 maternal deaths in 2011, 38 deaths in 2012, and 34 in 2013. In...
The Upper East Region recorded a total of 5,587 adolescent pregnancies representing 15.4% for the year 2016, with 2.1%occurring among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years, making the...
The Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), a renowned NGO and a member of the international Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has paid a courtesy call on First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo....
Ghana, has for a long time now, acknowledged the need of taking care of the health and development of its adolescents. Recognising that adolescents are a valuable resource to the nation’s future...
Access to birth control can be a challenge for women across the world. In Uganda unintended pregnancies are common. According to the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey, more than four in 10...
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...
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...
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...
U. S. President Donald Trump on Monday reinstated a global gag rule that bans U.S.-funded groups around the world from discussing abortion, a move that was widely expected but nonetheless dismayed...
Three organizations; WEB Foundation, Leti Arts and the Youth Advocates Ghana, are collaborating to address the adolescent sexual and reproductive health issues in the country. Through a newly...
