OUR cover story today about child prostitution gaining notoriety in Cape Coast in the Central Region is very worrying to say the least. WE see it as worrying because of the report that the illegal...
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...
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...
Queen mothers in the Ashanti region are considering reintroducing puberty rites to curb the high rate of teenage pregnancies in the region. According to statistics from the regional health...
A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016 A total of 18,441 adolescents got pregnant representing 11.4% of all pregnancies last year 2016, the...
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...
Education stakeholders have expressed concern about the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the Central Tongu District of the Volta Region, describing it as alarming. The situation has led to several...
Marking this year’s Mother’s Day celebrations, female employees of Voltic (GH) Limited (Voltic) inspired both teenage mothers and expectant mothers to dream again and become symbol of hope for...
More needs to be done to support struggling teenage mothers and kayayei mothers who have been largely neglected by society, the Alliance for Women in Media Africa, (AWMA) has said. The alliance in a...
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 chief of Sagnarigu in the Northern Region, Naa Yakubu Abdulai has declared zero tolerance for child marriage within his traditional area. He has served notice that any parents or guardians found...
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 First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has appealed to traditional leaders in the Central Region to help address alarming rates of reported teenage pregnancy cases in the area, in support of her...
Issues of the child marriage and teenage pregnancy have become foremost in the fight for equality for women in society. According to UNICEF’s State of the World’s CHILDREN 2016 Report, 21% of...
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...
Discussants at a public forum to indentify the cause of the increasing cases of parental neglect, unanimously agreed that uncontrolled births resulting from the bringing forth too many children in...
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...
Children giving birth constitute 11.5% of deliveries in the 2016 alone at various health facilities in the Sissala East District of the Upper West region according to the district Director of Health...
