If family planning is our choice, why isn’t it in our budget?

I am proposing something more deliberate: Ghana should examine whether an appropriate share of future natural-resource revenues or other domestic revenues can, through the proper legal and budgetary processes, support a protected financing mechanism for family planning, adolescent health and related prevention interventions.

A choice must exist beyond a slogan The timing of this conversation is particularly important because Ghana Health Service is marking National Family Planning Week 2026 under the theme “A Choice for All: Agency, Intention, and Access,” with the motto “It’s Your Life.

The connection between family planning and national development is also reflected in Ghana's own family-planning agenda, which increasingly recognizes that reproductive health affects not only individual well-being but the country's broader social and economic development.