The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners have celebrated the transformation of private maternity homes in Ghana. The celebration saw the gathering of Midwives, government representatives, USAID staff, and partners in Accra. The event included presentations, poster exhibitions, and a panel discussion on revitalizing the private maternity sector in Ghana. Present … Read more
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 infections. She emphasised that there was no reason or justification, being spiritual or traditional to deny the adolescent group sex education, as they constituted about 38 percent … Read more
The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, has directed that the recruitment of casual health workers should cease forthwith. At the 2017 Health Summit in Kumasi, Mr Agyemang Manu said all facilities and directorates have been requested to submit a list of all casuals on their staff being paid with internally generated funds to the … Read more
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 unsafe abortion recorded in the country within the period. Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), an … Read more
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 unsafe abortion recorded in the country within the period. Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), an … Read more
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 cases of unsafe abortion recorded in the country within the period. Mr Raphael Godlove Ahenu, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), … Read more
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 government on population and related issues, the NPC also co-ordinates population programmes in the country, sets programme targets and promotes the integration of population … Read more
The Central Regional Office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service has tasked stakeholders to ensure that social intervention programmes targeted at addressing teenage pregnancy focus on the key factors. It said parental control and guidance were key to addressing the issue and so parents, especially single mothers, … Read more
Effective March 1, healthcare providers in Rwanda will be prohibited from using mobile phones during working hours to “ensure better service delivery”, according to an announcement from the country’s Minister for Health, Dr Diane Gashumba. He made the announcement at a workshop, held in Bugesera District, which sought to chart ways to improve quality of … Read more
In response to the poverty crisis and to prevent Ghanaians from falling below the civilized standard of living, the government of Ghana has introduced over 100 social welfare programmes over the years. This number, per a research I conducted recently, is far higher than the number of social welfare interventions in the U.S, U.K and … Read more