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 of the National Population Policy to limit the number of children born to any couple in the country. The proposal however sparked criticisms across the country, with many … 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 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