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The R3M Program in Ghana

Like most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana suffers from high maternal mortality and morbidity due partly to high rates of unwanted fertility and unsafe abortion and relatively low use of modern contraception. Although the Government of Ghana has made impressive gains in recent years, access to reproductive health services remains poor, particularly so for the majority of the population who live in rural, impoverished, and isolated communities. Only 19 percent of married women of reproductive age use modern contraceptive methods (PRB 2006), and data from the 2003 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey indicate that 16 percent of all births in Ghana are unwanted, 40 percent are unplanned, and 24 percent are mistimed (Macro International 2004). Rates of postabortion care service provision are particularly low: In 2004, only 1 of 10 regional hospitals, 41 percent of other hospitals (district and other hospitals), and 12 percent of other lower-level facilities reported providing postabortion care (GHS and QHP 2005). Mistimed, unplanned, and unwanted fertility arises from limited access to and use of family planning services. .....more

Update on Reproductive Health Centers

Korle Bu Hospital	La General Hospital
Completed	Completed
February 2010	February 2010
As of November 2009	As  of November 2009