MEDIA CENTER 
Community-based Health Planning and Services
& Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative
Digital Media Kit

The Council is working with the Ghana Health Service to develop the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative to improve the access to and quality of health care. A USAID official characterized the initiative as one of the best health policies in Africa. The Deputy Minister of Health said that CHPS “has enabled communities to develop and participate in [care that is] efficient, affordable, and responsive to their health needs.”

With CHPS, Navrongo, in northern Ghana, has reported a significant reduction in child mortality. This community has nearly reached the UN's Millennium Development Goal of reducing under-five mortality by two-thirds, a decade ahead of the UN's 2015 global target date. The childhood mortality rate fell by 68 percent in eight years and the total fertility rate by one birth in three years. On 27 April the Council and its partners launched the Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative, a strategy to improve access to medicine.

Resources

• Fact sheet (more)
• News release (more)
• Picture gallery (more)
• Project summaries

  • Community-based Health Planning and Services

  • Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative
• Video clips (offsite link)

Related Information

Project Summaries

• ExCHANGE: Expanding Community Healthcare Accessibility Network
• Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project
• Scaling Up the Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative
  in Nkwanta District

Research Locations

• Ghana
• Sub-Saharan Africa

Key Population Council Program/Africa Staff

• Ayorinde Ajayi, Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana)
• Kobina Bainson, Program Associate (Ghana)
• James F. Phillips, Senior Associate (USA)
• Maya Vaughan-Smith, Staff Research Associate (USA)

Other Program Supporters

• John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Director, Nkwanta Health Development Centre (Ghana)
• John P. Mascotte (USA)
• Frank Nyonator, Director, Policy Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Division, Ghana Health Service
• Elias K. Sory, Director General, Ghana Health Service

News Releases

• "Saving lives in Ghana: Can public–private partnerships help?" (2006) (full text)
• "Peter J. Donaldson, president of the Population Council, to visit Ghana" (2005) (full text)
• "Population Council’s James F. Phillips recognized for excellence in research by US government" (2004) (full text)

Offsite Links

• ExCHANGE Africa

• Ghana Health Service's CHPS program

• INDEPTH Network

• INTACT Network

• Navrongo Health Research Centre

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This page updated 3 May 2007

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