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ARHR proudly attended the 8th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, held in Nagasaki, Japan, from November 18 to 22, 2024. The symposium, organized by Health Systems Global (HSG), was centered around the theme “Building Just and Sustainable Health Systems Centering People and Protecting the Planet.”  This timely theme emphasized the need for people-centered health […]

ARHR, in collaboration with eight dedicated implementing partners, has officially commenced a comprehensive baseline study aimed at establishing critical benchmarks to assess the progress and impact of the “Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Primary Health Care” project. This initiative, generously funded by Co-Impact, seeks to promote health equity by empowering women and […]

A coalition of 55 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working in reproductive health in Ghana,  is urgently calling on the government to clear essential Family Planning (FP) commodities, and other medical products, stuck at the Tema Port for over seven (7) months. This action is critical to prevent a shortage of these commodities which could significantly […]

In a significant move towards improving primary healthcare and promoting gender equity, ARHR through nine partners in Ghana’s Northern and Southern regions has recruited and trained 900 Gender Model Families (GMF) across ten project communities in two districts each. Each partner organization recruited 100 families, willing to participate in the GMF process, marking a key […]

Four outstanding students have been awarded certificates of achievement as part of the Adolescent Health West Africa (ADOWA) Project’s “Adolescent Health Essay Competition.”  The competition, held in April 2024, aimed to engage adolescents in discussions about issues that affect their health and well-being. Adolescents were asked to express their views on what is needed to […]

ARHR’s Northern Zonal partners, Songtaba and Youth Alive, held an inception meeting with the Northern Regional Health Directorate in Tamale on August 7, 2024. This meeting is part of the preparatory activities to derive support from key stakeholders for the rollout of the Gender Module Family (GMF), a key component of ARHR’s “Putting Women and […]

ARHR organized a workshop to review emerging findings from studies conducted on gender, intersectionality, power, and political economy issues in Ghana’s Primary Health Care (PHC). The meeting allowed stakeholders from civil society, academia, and other parties in the health sector to receive insights into the research findings and propose viable entry points for corrective action […]

ARHR has successfully conducted its second trainer-of-trainers session to boost the capacities of its six partner organizations as part of actions to implement the “Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Primary Health Care (PHC)” initiative. Supported by SEND Ghana and funded by Co-Impact, this initiative seeks to enhance community health outcomes using the […]

In a two-day conference in Abuja, Nigeria, stakeholders across West Africa converged to tackle pressing issues surrounding adolescent reproductive and mental health.  Hosted on the sidelines of the 25th ordinary meeting of the ECOWAS Assembly of Health Ministers by the West African Health Organization (WAHO), the conference discussed ways to improve adolescent mental, sexual, and […]

ARHR has trained partners on the Gender Model Family (GMF), with support from SEND Ghana, as part of activities to implement the ‘Putting Women at the Centre of PHC’ initiative with funding from Co-Impact.  Held in Accra, the training brought together 12 participants, including two representatives from six partner organizations who were empowered to understand […]