CAMFED Ghana has revealed a significant lack of access to Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) services for adolescents across five regions in Ghana during a recent study they Five Ghanaian Regions Face Adolescent Reproductive Health Service Gaps-CAMFED Study across some selected five regions.
The regions included Ashanti (Amansie Central), Bono East (Pru West), Northern (Tatale Sangule), Central (Assin South), and Savannah (Bole).
Focus areas CAMFED Ghana study focused on areas with high rates of child marriage, teenage pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases and called for urgent intervention to improve SRH education and services for young people in rural communities.
Speaking on the findings from the study, the Executive Director of CAMFED Ghana, Fairuza Abdul-Rashid Safian, highlighted major gaps in knowledge on critical topics such as sexual rights, gender-based violence, adolescent reproductive health, and abortion. "CAMFED Ghana urges the Ghana Education Service (GES) to integrate comprehensive and age-appropriate SRH education into the national curriculum.
