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GHANA: Overview
Current Projects | Publications
 Pathfinder began work in Ghana in 2001 with the launching of the African Youth Alliance (AYA) Project. AYA, which ended in 2005, was a five year partnership focusing on adolescent reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention in Ghana, Botswana, Tanzania, and Uganda. While continuing its efforts to meet the reproductive health needs of adolecents, Pathfinder has expanded its work in Ghana to combat the country's high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity. Currently, Pathfinder is working to increase access to safe abortion services, and to treat and prevent the debilitating and stigmatizing condition of obstetric fistula.
Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain post-colonial independence, which it achieved in 1957. Today, thanks to natural resources like gold, timber, and cocoa, Ghana enjoys a per-capita income nearly double that of many of its West African neighbors. Even so, nearly half of Ghana’s 22 million people live on less than a dollar per day, and basic health needs of the population often go unmet. This is particularly true in the country’s north, which is home to higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, registers a total fertility rate nearly twice that of the nation as a whole, and has far fewer health facilities than the south.
Current and recent Projects in Ghana
Campus-Based Peer Education: A one year project to increase university students’ awareness and access to quality sexual and reproductive health information.
Safe Abortion Services: A project that improves access to and quality of comprehensive abortion care services in select facilities in Ghana, with a focus on the northern region of the country.
Adolescent Reproductive Health and Youth-Friendly Services: Increasing the provision of adolescent reproductive health and youth-friendly services in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Strengthening Obstetric Fistula Prevention and Access to Treatment: A collaboration between Pathfinder and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to treat and prevent obstetric fistula.
IPPF Safe Abortion Action Fund: A two-year grant from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) supporting safe abortion activities in Ghana, India, Mozambique, and South Africa.
Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care: A one-year project that addressed unsafe abortion among adolescent women in Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda.
African Youth Alliance: A major project that worked to improve, scale up, and institutionalize HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescent reproductive health programs in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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