UNFPA Ghana | Media and Communication Advocacy Network

WHEN THE MEN START GIVING BIRTH

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:34:00 +0000

Photo: K4Health

Today, you and I are going to change the story of creation!!! Of course, I am not talking about creating new software or inventing a new technology; I am referring to the real story of the creation of man. Have you ever wondered how the world would be, if the words of God changed after he found that Adam and Eve had eaten the forbidden fruit? What if there was an exchange of roles, sounding like this:

“…And to you Adam, I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your wife, and she will rule over you…”

REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY, THE COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:56:00 +0000

Midwife checking a pregnant woman. Photo: Ghana Health Nest

Every year an estimated 3,040 Ghanaian mothers die while fulfilling their biological responsibility of pregnancy and delivery of babies.

These deaths are unacceptably high and Ghana is unlikely to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters to 185/100,000 live births by 2015.

THE CHALLENGES OF THE ADOLESCENT GIRL

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:15:00 +0000

Photo: loycek.wordpress.com

For girls, adolescence is a time when the gendered nature of society becomes more defined; when being both young and female could limit girls’ choices and thwart their potentials.

Adolescence is an age of transformation when children under-go rapid physical, cognitive, emotional, sexual and psychological changes. It is also an age of opportunity, when the brain undergoes a burst of development and the potential for learning is enormous.

STAKEHOLDERS IN GHANA CONSULT ON CEDAW SHADOW REPORT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:31:00 +0000

Photo: Dana Smillie/World Bank

Ghana is a signatory to many international conventions. The country has ratified the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions on protecting the rights of workers, eliminating child labor as well as eliminating the worst form of labor.

However, stakeholders have expressed reservations about the commitment to the effective implementation of such laws and policies. Even though the country has adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), gender inequality and discrimination against women still persists.

UNFPA MCAN MEMBER WINS 2013 JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:47:00 +0000

Kingsley Obeng-Kyere receiving the award

A member of the UNFPA Media, Communications and Advocacy Network (MCAN), Mr Kingsley Obeng-Kyere, has been adjudged the Professor P.V Ansah/GJA Journalist of the Year for 2012, at the 18th Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards ceremony held in Accra.

MCAN is a national network of media and communication experts formed and inaugurated in October 2002 in Ghana by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Under the leadership of UNFPA, the network members are a diverse group of professionals such as reporters, correspondents, columnists, feature writers, scriptwriters, commentators, free-lance writers, producers, broadcasters, photo journalists, Ministry of Information officials among others, who either represent their media organisations or joined as individuals voluntarily to advocate for changes in policy, laws or programmes for advancing population and development issues in Ghana.

ENSURE YOUR SAFETY -- USE A CONDOM THE RIGHT WAY

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:43:00 +0000

NGO worker showing a condom to the man

When things get up close and personal, the rule is always “better safe than sorry”. If you are sexually active, condoms are must have accessories, and when used correctly, are your best defense against sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies.

A condom is a thin rubber sheath used during sexual intercourse as a contraceptive or as protection against infection. Before you consider having sex, you need to know how to protect yourself. Condoms are often described as barrier methods of contraception.

FROM TRAUMA TO TRIUMPH: THE STORY OF A RURAL WOMAN

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 03:36:00 +0000

Patients at the fistula centre

Madam Fulera Yakubu, a 40 year old married woman with three children lives in Choggu-Yapalsi, a rural farming community in the Sanarigu District of the Northern Region.

Much to the delight of her husband and family, she became pregnant again almost shortly after her third child. Since she appeared strong she least anticipated any problems with her delivery.

CHARITY’S STORY -- A REPORT FROM KETA

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:52:00 +0000

The first program in the Maternal Health Channel series tells the story of Charity Agbemava, a popular local woman from Keta who died from giving birth. She made a dramatic journey from Nigeria to Keta to give birth, but she died at the Keta Municipal Hospital after an emergency operation. We ask, why are so many Ghanaian women dying from giving birth?

GHANA AIDS COMMISSION DRAWS ON LESSONS FROM INDIA PROJECT

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:10:00 +0000

A wall that promotes HIV/AIDS-awareness

Lessons from an HIV project in India have provided the needed impetus to scale up Ghana’s response to the HIV pandemic. Through a South-South partnership and collaboration, officials of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) drew lessons from the widely acclaimed Avahan project aimed at ultimate community ownership of HIV interventions.

Avahan is the flagship programme of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for the prevention of HIV in India, and has been projected as a unique business model that brought private sector efficiency to a public health programme. The US$250 million project is said to be effectively complementing the Government of India's efforts to control AIDS through its own publicly funded National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).

MATERNAL HEALTH/MORTALITY -- THE FACTS BEHIND THE FIGURES

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:30:00 +0000

Photo shown for presentation purposes only.

First of all, I must make it clear that, I do not intend to embarrass anybody by my writing, neither do I intend to make people uncomfortable, but the facts one day must come out.

As health workers, sometimes I doubt if some of us must be labeled hell workers and not health workers. We prefer protocol to protection and emergency. I have always thought and practice that, we must start the life-saving process before protocol.

Madame C L, 31 years old, came to our facility because she heard we practice emergency obstetrics and gynaecology. She had a previous intra-uterine fetal death which ended up in a caesarian section in a hospital in a neighboring region. This time she had developed Gestational Hypertension (PIH), and at 34 weeks she was breech.

FAMILY PLANNING HOLDS THE KEY

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:58:00 +0000

Women and their babies

The projection by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, that world population is expected to reach seven billion by the end of October this year cannot be dismissed as the churning out of mere statistical figures without relevance since it has implications to the quality of life of a people.

According to the Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana’s population for instance has grown from a small figure of 6.7 million in 1960 to 24.2 million in 2010. With the current growth rate of 2.4 per cent per annum, the country’s population is projected to double within the next 29 years with obvious implications for all sectors of the economy.

THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK (MCAN) PROFILE

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:57:00 +0000

Background

MCAN is national network of media and communication experts formed and inaugurated in October 2002 in Ghana by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Under the leadership of UNFPA, the network members are a diverse group of professionals, such as reporters, correspondents, columnists, feature writers, scriptwriters, commentators, freelance writers, producers, broadcasters, photo journalists, and officials from the Ministry of Information who advocate for changes in policy, laws or programmes for advancing population and development issues in Ghana.