It is vaccination day, baby cries fill the courtyard of the Botro General Hospital, about 400 kilometres north of Abidjan. Henriette Ouattara, who gave birth a few months ago at the maternity hospital in Botro, has come to have her baby vaccinated.
In Ghana, gender equality and equity are important commitments in national health policies, including many other multi-sectoral policies. At the height of COVID-19, Ghana’s Strategic Response Plan emphasized the need to ensure equitable access to health services for all, who will need them.
In late 2019, 68-year-old Meseret Belay, who lives in the Meshwalekiya neighbourhood of Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, Addis Ababa, suffered a severe stroke that left her unable to speak and paralysed on the left side of her body.
