Ghana: Health Sector Gives More Attention to Family Planning

THE MINISTRY of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in partnership with other stakeholders, have taken step to address the nation's high family planning unmet need of 34%, which prevents one in every three women who want to delay or space pregnancies or stop child bearing from using any reliable family planning method.

Though the country has a contraceptive rate of 25%, there still persist a high unmet need with the poor, uneducated and rural women worst affected, in that 38% and 28% of rural and urban women respectively have an unmet need.

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