Agona West Tops Teenage Pregnancy Cases In Central Region
The Agona West Municipality recorded a total of 762 cases of teenage pregnancy cases mostly school girls age between 10 ...
Tag: Reproductive health
FGM Is A Crime; Stop It
The Minister for Gender, Children & Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has served notice to proponents of Female Genital Mutilation ...
Pregnant Women Cautioned Against Alcohol Intake
A midwife at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi is cautioning pregnant women against the consumption of alcoholic beverages, ...
Central Region Records Drop In Teenage Pregnancy
The Central Region, ranked as the second highest region with high prevalence of teenage pregnancy in the country, has started ...
First Lady Calls For Support For Adolescent Reproductive Health
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called for the need for a resolute and cooperative leadership comprising the family, ...
Teachers Lack Resources For Reproductive Health Education – Survey
A study conducted on Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH) in Ghana has revealed that teachers lacked the requisite resources and time ...
Youth In Bukom Sensitised On Dangers of Unsafe Abortion
Over 100 youth living in Israel, a fishing community located within Bukom, a suburb of Accra, have been vigorously sensitized ...
US Balks At ‘abortion’ Mention In UN Call To Fight Abuse of Women
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted a resolution Thursday condemning abuse and discrimination of women, but Washington refused to ...
Ash Reg Health Directorate Scales Up Efforts In Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy
The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate has promised to concentrate on it’s efforts in keeping Adolescents safe and in good health ...
UNFPA Executive Director, Babatunde Osotimehin Dies At 68
The Executive Director of the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), Babatunde Osotimehin, is dead. The cause of his death is ...
Teenage Pregnancy Declines In Ashanti
Kumasi, May 22, GNA – Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region as the various interventions ...
New WHO Data Records Half of All Causes of Death
Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organisation (WHO) show. ...
Too Early, Too Many
Too early, too many Salamatu expresses her wish to have limited or spaced the number of children she had had ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New ...
Fight Against Teenage Pregnancy Intensified In Ashanti Region
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the ...
Ashanti Ups Effort To Fight Teen Sex and Pregnancy
The campaign to bring down teen sex and teen pregnancy has been scaled up in the Ashanti Region with the ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana? 1
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as ...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana?
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as ...
Government Affirms Commitment To Meet SDG Goals
Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, the Minister of Health, has reiterated government’s commitment to work to improve healthcare delivery in the country ...
Population Council Wants Sex Education For Adolescents Intensified
Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, the Executive Director of the National Population Council has called for intensified sex education for teenagers ...