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Ghana Advances Adolescent Health with New Regional and Global Guidance

Adolescents and young people make up a quarter of Ghana’s population…
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women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health

African health ministers call for accelerating progress in women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health by transforming health systems

Lusaka, Zambia - At the 75th Session of the WHO Regional Committee…
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Ministry of Health, WHO, KOICA commission refurbished health facilities to enhance access to quality reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health services in Busoga

Ministry of Health, WHO, KOICA commission refurbished health facilities to enhance access to quality reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health services in Busoga

Bulamagi, Iganga District, Uganda — In a landmark achievement for…
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Training ongoing

Ghana Trains Survey Teams for the 2025 Global School Health Survey to Build the Foundation for Heathier Schools

As Ghana faces a rising tide of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), the…
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Ghana takes steps to leave no one behind in access to adolescent and youth friendly health information

Ghana takes steps to leave no one behind in access to adolescent and youth friendly health information

Since 2019, WHO has been supporting Ghana in deploying a web-based…
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Leveraging digital technology for quality adolescent and youth friendly health services in Ghana

Leveraging digital technology for quality adolescent and youth friendly health services in Ghana

Accra, Ghana - Over the years, Ghana has made significant efforts to…
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Data to action workshop

Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data

Accra, Ghana - The health and wellbeing of adolescents play a…
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Improving adolescent and youth health services

Improving adolescent and youth health services

Kinshasa – Nineteen-year-old Armande* recalls her disastrous first…
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Making school environment healthy and conducive for learning in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone has commenced the process of developing a National…
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Participants representing the 11 countries

Zambia hosts the first Regional Training Workshop on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Barriers Assessment Methodology (AHSBA)

The WHO Regional Office for Africa in collaboration with WHO…
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