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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