Ghana – Sexual reproductive health rights project impacts 200,000 people in two regions

7 January 2026

Over 200,000 people, including young people under 20 years from 11 districts in the Northern and Upper East Regions, have been impacted by a project that seeks to empower adolescents and young people to access accurate information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

Implemented by MSI Reproductive Choices Ghana (MSIG) and Youth Advocates Ghana (YAG) with funding from the European Union and support from the Ghana Health Service (GES) and the Ghana Education Service, the three-year project dubbed, Youth For Health, revamped and equipped 26 adolescent corners in the implementing districts.

Continued: https://www.myjoyonline.com/sexual-reproductive-health-rights-project-impacts-200000-people-in-two-regions/

07.01.2026

Ghana Education Service

Ghana Health Service

MSI Reproductive Choices Ghana

Theresa Oppong Mensah

Youth Advocates Ghana

GHANA – Youth urged to seek help from trusted adults and health facilities on sexual health issues

October 6, 2025

The Advocacy and Youth Coordinator at Marie Stopes Ghana, Henrietta Kaakyire Ataah has urged young people not to keep their sexual and reproductive health concerns to themselves but to seek help from trusted adults, Ghana Health Service facilities or Marie Stopes clinics where youth-friendly providers are available.

At the premiere of the second season of Atoua at the Silverbird Cinema in Accra, she highlighted a rise in unsafe abortion among adolescents and explained that the series was created to respond to that problem.

Continued: https://ghanaiantimes.com.gh/youth-urged-to-seek-help-from-trusted-adults-and-health-facilities-on-sexual-health-issues/

06.10.2025

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Ghana Health Service

Henrietta Kaakyire Ataah

Unsafe Abortion in Ghana – A Risky Reality for Young Girls

June 27, 2025

Accra – Giving birth as a teenager, especially in a deprived community like James Town, a densely populated suburb of Accra comes with immense social stigma and minimal support.

For Naa Adukwei Sowah, the challenges were even more acute.

Born to a single mother who struggled to provide for her children, Naa grew up as the eldest of three and was forced to engage in petty trading to support her family, leaving little time for school.

Continued; https://gna.org.gh/2025/06/unsafe-abortion-in-ghana-a-risky-reality-for-young-girls/

27.06.2025

Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana

Valaska Dinsey

World Heath Organisation

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 – 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

Ghana – Ministry of Education urged to review policy on abstinence

November 10, 2023

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has been called upon to review its policy on abstinence amongst school children to allow for preventive/contraceptive use sessions at school environment to safeguard pupils and students from unintended and teenage pregnancies.

The stakeholders, who made the call, said this would also help to address the increasing cases of unsafe abortion amongst adolescent girls in the country.

Continued: https://newsghana.com.gh/ministry-of-education-urged-to-review-policy-on-abstinence/

Ghana – 6,000 Adolescents In Volta Region Pregnant – Stakeholders Urged To Address Trend

20-May-2023

According to Ghana Statistical Service data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census, about 79,733 girls in Ghana aged 12 to 17 have been in a union, either married or living together with a man. Out of this number, 25,999 are girls of junior high school-going age (12 to 14 years).

In the Volta Region, it states that one out of four girls are married or are in a union before 18 years. According to the GHS District Health Information Management System (DHIMS), over 6,000 girls got pregnant between 2020 and 2021 alone.

Continued: https://www.peacefmonline.com/pages/local/news/202305/487762.php

20.05.2023

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Ghana Health Service

Hilda Kotoh

Thywill Eyra Kpe

United Nations Fund for Population Activities

Bono health directorate launches campaign to stop maternal deaths

Date: Aug - 01 - 2022
Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

The Bono Regional Health Directorate last Thursday launched a campaign to stop the rise in maternal mortality in the region. Statistics available indicate that whereas the region recorded 22 maternal deaths in 2019, the figure increased to 26 in 2020.

In 2021, the figure jumped further to 28, while 15 maternal deaths have already been recorded this year. It is as a result of this that the regional health directorate, in
collaboration with the Family Health Division and the Ghana Health Service
(GHS), launched the campaign against maternal mortality on the theme:
"Stop Preventable Maternal Deaths and Disabilities".

Continued: https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/bono-health-directorate-launches-campaign-to-stop-maternal-deaths.html

Ashanti Region recorded 174 maternal deaths in 2021 – GHS

May 27, 2022
CNR Citi Newsroom

The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate says 174 cases of maternal deaths were recorded in the region in 2021, with many of these deaths caused by unsafe abortion; a situation it has described as worrying.

According to the Ghana Health Service (GHS), global statistics suggest that 5 to 10% of women die through unsafe abortion annually.

Continued: http://www.businessghana.com/site/news/general/263464/Ashanti-Region-recorded-174-maternal-deaths-in-2021-%E2%80%93-GHS

27.05.2022

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Ashanti Regional Health Directorate

Dr. Emmanuel Tenkorang

Ghana – Don’t overlook abortion related deaths — GHS

March 27, 2022

Ms Naomi Acquah, the Western Regional Focal Person on the Comprehensive Abortion Care project has described abortion-related maternal deaths as a neglected tragedy that must not be overlooked by society.

According to medical experts, there is about 23 per cent out of 100 pregnancies ended up in unsafe abortion and thereby risking the lives of women involved, aside from complications, disabilities and long-term infertility issues.

Continued: https://www.modernghana.com/news/1147982/dont-overlook-abortion-related-deaths.html

27.03.2022