Publications

Pandemics such as COVID-19 compound prevailing gender inequalities and vulnerabilities, increasing risks of abuse. During an epidemic, women and girls may be at higher risk of experiencing intimate partner violence and other forms of domestic violence due to heightened tensions in the household. In 2016, approximately 27.7 per cent of Ghanaian women had experienced at […]

The covid 19 pandemic has exposed weak societal systems around the world. Institutions have had to quickly adapt to the challenges the pandemic present in order to deal with it. Health institutions and facilities have not been spared.

During an orientation and stakeholder meeting in the Ashanti Region towards the commencement of the second phase of a ‘Reproductive Health Education and Services for Young people and Adolescents’ project, Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights

A colleague shared the story of a suspected COVID-19 positive patient who was asked to self-isolate. This happened in a very big hospital in Accra. About four days later when the tests had been completed and a positive status had been confirmed,

  Malaria was considered too difficult to beat. The historic progress seen in the new millennium has changed the trajectory of the disease, with global cases and deaths reduced by more than half since 2001. Despite this progress, the threat of malaria resurgence due to drug and insecticide resistance, climate change, and complacency requires leadership […]

  Ghana is classified as being in the malaria control phase according to the Global Malaria Elimination Program. However, in 2016, Ghana recorded 10.4 million suspected malaria cases in its outpatient departments which denotes a 2.5% increase compared to same period in 2015. Conversely, there was a reduction in the number of malaria attributed deaths […]

  Social Justice cannot be attained if the health needs of people are denied due to financial challenges.  Social Justice is a paramount pillar that ensures a harmonious and peaceful society. Social Justice is upheld when societies promote gender equality and the rights of indigenous people. Over the years, the world has been working to […]

  To some, this practice is a way of preserving their way of life, tradition or sacred history. To them, it is a way of sticking to an old age tradition of over 2000 years and honouring their forefathers who handed down this practice to them. A practice that has over the years done more […]

Education continues to remain humanity’s greatest tool to gain knowledge about the world around us and how to survive in it. Education develops in people the proper perspective of life as it builds opinions and points of view on things in life. As a way of gaining information about the world and life in it, […]

Introduction Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) is widespread, systematic and culturally entrenched.  VAWG consists of any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or […]