Tag: UNFPA
COVID-19: Three institutions support Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf
Ecobank, in partnership with the UNFPA and Tobinco Pharmaceuticals, has provided logistical support to the Tetteh Ocloo State School for the Deaf at Ashaiman...
UNFPA supports marginalised young people
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has presented packs of hygiene kits and emergency food supplies to Hope for the Future Generations (HFFG), a...
Let’s not shield people who impregnate girls – Gender Dept.
Madam Lena Alai, the Volta Regional Director, Department of Gender, has asked opinion leaders to allow men who impregnate girls to suffer the right...
UNFPA/UNICEF arms 1,400 girls against teen pregnancy and Covid-19 in Central Region
More than 1,400 teen girls in the Central Region have been supplied with free sanitary kits and radio sets to support them in the...
Be agents of change, ARHR tells adolescent champions
The Alliance for Reproductive Health Right (ARHR) has charged its adolescent champions, particularly girls to be agents of change in their respective communities.
This, it...
NFPA throws support behind government to salvage the vulnerable in society
The UNFPA Deputy Country Representative for Ghana, Dr. Agnes Ntibanyurwa, has stated that UNFPA remains committed to support government to explore innovative means to...
Parents urged to seek legal remedy for abused girls with disability
Parents of girls with disabilities have been advised to seek a legal remedy for their children when they suffer any form of sexual abuse.
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Central Region records 3,198 teen pregnancies in 2020
The Central Region has recorded a total of three thousand one hundred and ninety eight (3,198) teen pregnancies from January to May this year.
According...
Enhance Access to Services for Migrants in the Context of COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of ensuring access to services for all.
Whether as a means to ensure we protect...
UNFPA calls for accelerated efforts to end fistula by 2030
Dr Natalia Kamen, the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), has called for accelerated efforts towards ending obstetric fistula by 2030,...
A license to rape
Chioma Nwosu & Rainer Ebert
Sudha was a healthy 16-year-old student in South India. Now she is dead. It was not COVID-19 that killed her...
Parents must build good relationship with adolescent girls
Madam Rhema Andah, Programmes Assistant, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) has called on parents to endeavour to build good personal relations with their...
Women in Leadership International donates to two Correctional Centres
Women in Leadership International (WILI), has donated items valued at GHC 25,000 to the Senior Correctional Centre of the Ghana Prisons Service and the...
UNFPA equips DOVVSU office at Paga
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has presented office equipment to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service...
GHS accelerate moves to address adolescent needs in Central Region
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has intensified measures to assist adolescents in the Central Region to achieve their dream as they transited into adulthood...
UNFPA Sub-implementation partners must timely carry out activities
Mr. Felix Chaahaah, Chief Director, Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC), has charged sub-implementation partners of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to endeavour to...
UN pledges support for reproductive health agenda in Africa
The United Nations will support African governments to expand access to quality and affordable reproductive health services for disadvantaged groups like women and girls...
UNFPA inaugurates second cohort
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Tuesday inaugurated the second cohort of the Youth Leadership (YoLe) Fellowship, which seeks to continuously empower...
United Nations Population Fund seeks US$683 million for 2020
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday launched an appeal for 683 million U.S. dollars for 2020 to provide life-saving reproductive health and...
Marrying off a child completely destroys her future – UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has reiterated its commitment towards the fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Ghanaian Communities by unveiling...
Institutions to safeguard rights of women and girls must be strengthened
The denial of income security, negative cultural practices, stereotyping, and gender-based violence among other things, remain the bane of society leading to the...
Department of Children appeals for public support against child marriage
Mr George Ankamah, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of Department of Children, has called on the public to be child-right advocates for the elimination of...
UNFPA empowers market women on sexual violence
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has embarked on a campaign towards empowering women at the Agbogbloshie Market to report sexual and gender-based violence...
Domestic violence should not be entertained – Minister
Mr Henry Quartey, the Deputy Minister for the Interior, said domestic violence leaves a trail of effects on not only survivors and their families...
Accessing emergency care, drivers must change attitudes
Some drivers involved in a project seeking to address maternal health mortalities in Ashanti Region are calling on emergency health care professionals to exhibit...
C.A.R : More than 20,000 People displaced by floods in Bangui
Heavy, unseasonable rains in Bangui, Central African Republic for the past three weeks continue to cause significant material damage, displacing at least 20,500 people...
Addressing maternal mortality: stakeholders advocate for community health fund
Addressing maternal mortality: stakeholders advocate for community health fund
The establishment of a health fund in rural communities to reimburse and incentivize taxi drivers who...
Binduri MP to deliver paper at ICPD 25 in Nairobi
Member of Parliament (MP) for Binduri in the Upper East Region of Ghana, Hon. Dr. Robert Kuganab-Lem is to deliver a paper at this...
Engage more parents in sexuality education
Participants at a two-day workshop on Parent-Child Communication on Sexuality Education, have called for a deliberate effort to target parents in the implementation of...
UNFPA trains DOVSSU officials on online data management
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in collaboration with the Ghana Police Service, on Monday began a three-day Data Management training for officers of...