Ghana – Media urged to lead campaign against unsafe abortion

March 18, 2025

The media has been charged to lead the campaign against unsafe abortions which continue to claim the lives of women and young girls in the country.

According to a Project and Advocacy Officer with the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), Michael Tagoe, contrary to common beliefs held that abortion was illegal in the country and it was actually permissible by law.

Continued: https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/media-urged-to-lead-campaign-against-unsafe-abortion/#google_vignette

18.03.2025

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EmpowHER project

Emmanuel Okanta Akoto

Michael Tagoe

Naadu Awuradwoa Addico

Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana

sexual and reproductive health

IPAS Ghana congratulates Dr Eunice Brookman-Amissah

February 27, 2025

Former country Director of IPAS Ghana, Dr Koma Jehu-Appiah, has congratulated Ambassador Dr Eunice Brookman-Amissah on her appointment by President John Dramani Mahama to the Council of State.

“We fully trust in your capabilities to deliver,” says Dr Jehu-Appiah in a statement issued in Accra yesterday copied the Ghanaian Times.

Ambassador Dr Brookman-Amissah is a physician and an advocate who has dedicated most of her career to improving women’s reproductive health and rights globally and especially in Africa.

Continued: https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/ipas-ghana-congratulates-dr-eunice-brookman-amissah/

27.02.2025

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Dr Koma Jehu-Appiah

Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah

Ipas Ghana

John Dramani Mahama

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Ghana – Adolescents in 5 regions in Ghana lack Sexual Reproductive Health services – Study

February 21, 2025
By ⁠Kingsley Adusei Amakye

A study has revealed that adolescents across five regions of Ghana are cut off from assessing Sexual Reproductive Health services in various health facilities.

CAMFED Ghana, which carried out the studies, wants Ghana Education Service (GES) to introduce comprehensive and age-appropriate Sexual Reproductive Health education into the national curriculum.

The initiative is to enhance Sexual and Reproductive Health education and services for adolescents in rural Ghana. The recommendations follow a CAMFED study that analyzed Sexual Reproductive Health services in the five regions where there is a high rate of child marriage, teenage pregnancy as well as Sexually transmitted diseases.

Continued: https://3news.com/health/adolescents-in-5-regions-in-ghana-lack-sexual-reproductive-health-services-study/#google_vignette

21.02.2025

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CAMFED Ghana

Fairuza Abdul-Rashid Safian

Ghana Education Service

sexual and reproductive health services

Ghana – Silent empowerment: Rural-urban women take control of family planning behind closed doors

Mona Lisa Frimpong
6 January 2025

On a May morning in 2024, Stella (not her real name) rushed to the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) clinic at Suame, her heart pounding.

It has been her routine for some time now. The weight of her fears pushed her faster as she weaved through the busy streets. Each step felt heavier, but the clinic was her only hope.

With a glance over her shoulder, she received her monthly birth control shot.

Continued: https://www.myjoyonline.com/silent-empowerment-rural-urban-women-take-control-of-family-planning-behind-closed-doors/

Ghana – Maternal mortality: actors in Volta commit to promoting safe abortion, family planning

Octobre 26, 2024
By Samuel Akumatey

Ho, Oct 26, GNA – Actors and stakeholders in the Volta Region have committed to the promotion of safe abortion and family planning as a means to addressing maternal morbidity and mortality in the country.

The Ghana health service maintains that unintended pregnancies accounts for the majority of maternal health challenges, and thus the need to make known and accessible, safe and approved methods of birth control.

https://gna.org.gh/2024/10/maternal-mortality-actors-in-volta-commit-to-promoting-safe-abortion-family-planning/

26.10.2024

Ghana – Basic schools educated on Sexual and Reproductive Health Right to reduce teenage pregnancy in Atiwa East

September 26, 2024
By: Michael Kofi Kenetey

The Atiwa East District Education Directorate in collaboration with the Family Strengthening Programme, FSP of SOS Children’s Villages, Asiakwa has schooled pupils on Sexual and Reproductive Health Right, SRHR education in seven Basic Schools in Adasawase and New Jejeti in the Atiwa East District of the Eastern Region.

The education on SRHR is to help minimize the rise of teenage pregnancy and its related issues such as unsafe abortion and teenage pregnancy complications in the district. It is also to educate the pupils on dangers and negative effects of sexual activities on adolescents and young people, and the consequences it pose to their education and future career.

Continued: https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/news/basic-schools-educated-on-sexual-and-reproductive-health-right-to-reduce-teenage-pregnancy-in-atiwa-east/2024/#google_vignette

26.09.2024

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Asiwome Funn

Family Strengthening Programme

Innocent Asiwome Funn

Unsafe abortion and unprotected sex activities affecting health of Adolescents

April 29, 2024
A GNA Feature by Fatima Anafu-Astanga

Bolatanga – Agnes Malebna (Not real name) was rushed in by her family to the Tinguri CHPS Out Patients Department (OPD) in the West Mamprusi Municipality in the North East Region already emaciated, dehydrated and anaemic having lost so much blood.

The examination conducted by the medical team making efforts to keep her alive indicated it was an attempt to abort, which may have started at home by the 16-year-old, SHS form one student who felt she was still in school and too young to start making babies.

Continued: https://gna.org.gh/2024/04/unsafe-abortion-and-unprotected-sex-activities-affecting-health-of-adolescents/

29.04.2024

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Columbia Mailman School

Ghana Democratic Health

Issahaku Rayal

Oxfam Ghana

Participatory Action

Power to Choose project

sexual and reproductive rights and health

Ghana – Sunyani Adolescent Parliament advocates access to contraceptives to promote safe sex

April 15, 2024
By Dennis Peprah, GNA

Sunyani, April 15, GNA – The Sunyani Municipal Adolescent Parliament has called on the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to support young people to easily access condoms and contraceptives to promote safe sex.

The also called for intensified sex education, proper use of contraceptives, and access to family planning services.

Continued: https://gna.org.gh/2024/04/sunyani-adolescent-parliament-advocates-access-to-contraceptives-to-promote-safe-sex/

15.04.2024

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Daniel Sarkodie Frimpong

family planning services

Ghana Health Service

Raphael Godlove Ahenu

Sunyani Municipal Adolescent Parliament

Abortions are legal in much of Africa. But few women may be aware, and providers don’t advertise it

By Maria Cheng And Misper Apawu, The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal. Health workers assured her abortions were lawful under certain conditions in the West African country, but Efua said she was still nervous.

“I had lots of questions, just to be sure I would be safe,” Efua told the Associated Press, on condition that only her middle name be used, for fear of reprisals from the growing anti-abortion movement in her country.

Continued: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/africa/abortions-are-legal-in-much-of-africa-but-few-women-may-be-aware-and-providers/article_24b7ad8d-aa20-5134-aa5f-a381fc7ea56c.html

Ghana Court Fines Two Individuals for Illegal Abortion: A Spotlight on the Country’s Abortion Laws

By: Ebenezer Mensah
January 16, 2024

Ghana’s Assin Fosu Magistrate Court has fined a 40-year-old hairdresser and a 21-year-old carpenter GH¢4,800.00 each for their role in an illegal abortion. The case has brought to light the ongoing legal and ethical debates surrounding abortion in the country, where the procedure remains controversial and heavily regulated.

The Illegal Procedure
The hairdresser, Charlotte Asiedu, was found guilty of administering a harmful concoction to a 17-year-old student in an attempt to terminate the student’s 17-week pregnancy. This led to severe stomach pain and the death of the fetus, forcing the young woman to seek medical attention at a hospital.

Continued: https://bnnbreaking.com/politics/courts-law/ghana-court-fines-two-individuals-for-illegal-abortion-a-spotlight-on-the-countrys-abortion-laws/

16.01.2024