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Ghana​

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 Pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic at a Reproductive and Child Health facility in Savelugu, in the Northern Region of Ghana, in 26 May 2015.

Every Woman Every Newborn in Ghana

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National mortality targets

Maternal
mortality ratio

196 per 100,000 live births
by 2025

Stillbirth
rate

10 PER 1,000 total births
by 2023

Neonatal mortality rate

18 per 1,000 live births
by 2023

Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets

©UNICEF/Roger Yebuah.  Staff Midwife Matilda Adaboro at Maternity Block of Sapelliga Health Center., in February 2023.

Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets

MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

In 2024, Ghana’s MNH Acceleration Plan is focusing on two priorities:

©UNICEF/Francis Kokoroko.
A health worker records data using the Maternal and Child Health Records book at the Bekwai Municipal Hospitaln in the Ashanti Region, Ghana, in May 2023.

©UNICEF/Noorani. Senior Nurse Sister Evelyn Puoviel with assistance from Nurse Yussif Barikisu attend to children at UNICEF supported Newborn Care Unit for premature babies at Tamale West Hospital in Tamale, Ghana, in October 2024.

Quality of care in Ghana

Ghana is one of the 11 countries spearheading efforts to improve quality of care in maternal, newborn and child health services as part of the Quality of Care Network. Ghana’s successes in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health are essential to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths. These include:

  • Quality of Care is integrated in Ghana’s ENAP EPMM strategy, in the National Healthcare Quality Strategy as well as in the Networks of Practice.
  • Health workers are trained in WHO standards to improve quality of care in health facilities for small and sick newborns care, children and young adolescents care and for maternal and newborn care.
  • Community scorecards continue to be used by communities to assess the performance of health facilities on the provision of quality care healthcare including that of MNCH. Through this, the facilities are accountable to the communities and engages the communities in the provision of quality healthcare.

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Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Results Framework, 2022-2025

The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce, Medical commodities and devices, Data for Action, Equity, Accountability, Research/innovation/knowledge exchange.

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Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths

A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.

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Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care

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