Placide Tapsoba, M.D.
Senior Associate & Country Director
Placide Tapsoba, M.D., M.P.H. is a native of Burkina Faso. He is director of the Population Council's office in Ghana and a senior associate with the Council's Reproductive Health program. Tapsoba studied medicine at the University of Padua, Italy, and subsequently earned both a master's in public health and a master's in medical anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tapsoba is the director of the Council’s Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity (R3M) program in Ghana, a consortium of five international partners working toward achieving Millennium Development Goal 5 by reducing and eliminating maternal mortality and morbidity due to unsafe abortion through reducing unwanted fertility. The nationwide program develops the capacity of training institutions and healthcare providers and increases access to family planning, long-term and permanent contraceptive methods, and comprehensive abortion care. The program is the first of its kind and works with the public sector in Ghana as well as the private sector.
Throughout his career, Tapsoba has addressed sensitive public health issues in very traditional African settings. In the late 1980s, he worked with religious leaders (predominantly imams) in West Africa to promote family planning services, a very innovative approach at the time. In the early 1990s, Tapsoba pioneered postabortion care (PAC) services in francophone Africa and ultimately established the PAC consortium for francophone Africa. He was also instrumental in conducting the first study on men who have sex with men in Africa in Dakar, Senegal, which ultimately was replicated in several settings on the continent.
Placide Tapsoba, M.D.
Senior Associate & Country Director
Quality of Care and Client Willingness to Pay for Family Planning Services at Marie Stopes International Facilities in Burkina Faso (more)
The Council worked with Marie Stopes International to improve the family planning services MSI provides, and to propose strategies to ensure the sustainability of the program.
(11/2011 - 4/2012)
Topics: Family planning services; Monitoring and evaluation; Quality of care; Strengthening health systems
Countries: Burkina Faso
Adolescent Safe Spaces, Health, and Skills for Adulthood in Urban Ghana (more)
This safe spaces program provides 12–15-year-old urban adolescent females in Ghana with social, economic, and health assets.
(1/2009 - 3/2011)
Topics: Financial literacy/livelihoods; Schooling; Social isolation/support
Countries: Ghana
Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Through Increased Access to Comprehensive Abortion Care and Family Planning Services in Ghana (more)
The Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality program is supporting the government of Ghana in achieving its contraceptive prevalence goal of 39 percent by 2015 and reducing mortality and morbidity due to unsafe abortion in three focus regions.
(9/2006 - 12/2011)
Topics: Family planning services; Integrating health services; Maternal and newborn health; Safe abortion and postabortion care
Countries: Ghana
Placide Tapsoba, M.D.
Senior Associate & Country Director
Repositioning community-based family planning in Ghana: A case study of Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) (PDF)Ntsua,Stephen; Tapsoba,Placide; Quansah-Asare,Gloria; Nyonator,Frank K.
Case study report
Publication date: 2012
Introduction of medical abortion in Ghana (PDF)
Osei Kuffour,Emmanuel; Esantsi,Selina; Tapsoba,Placide; Quansah-Asare,Gloria; Askew,Ian
Publication date: 2011
HIV vulnerability of men who have sex with men in developing countries: Horizons studies, 2001-2008 (abstract) (PDF)
Geibel,Scott; Tun,Waimar; Tapsoba,Placide; Kellerman,Scott E.
Public Health Reports 125(2): 316-324
Publication date: 2010
Looking back, moving forward: Understanding the HIV risk and sexual health needs of men who have sex with men, Horizons studies 2001 to 2008 (PDF)
Geibel,Scott; Tun,Waimar; Tapsoba,Placide; Kellerman,Scott E.
Horizons Synthesis Background Papers
Publication date: 2010
Acceptability and promotion strategies for LNG-IUS in Ghana: A public health assessment (PDF)
Nyarko,Philomena; Adohinzin,Cletus; Tapsoba,Placide; Esantsi,Selina; Townsend,John W.; Kanlisi,Nicholas; Ed-Nighpense,Ekua; Asare,Gloria Quansah
Publication date: 2009
Men who have sex with men and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (abstract) (HTML)
Smith,Adrian D.; Tapsoba,Placide; Peshu,Norbert; Sanders,Eduard J.; Jaffe,Harold W.
Lancet 374(9687): 416-422
Publication date: 2009
Profile of abortion seekers in Ghana and their decision-making processes (PDF)
Nyarko,Philomena; Adohinzin,Cletus; RamaRao,Saumya; Tapsoba,Placide; Ajayi,Ayorinde
Publication date: 2008
Implementing STI/HIV prevention and care interventions for men who have sex with men in Senegal (PDF)
Moreau,Amadou; Tapsoba,Placide; Ly,Abdoulaye; Niang,Cheikh Ibrahima; Diop,Abdou Khoudia
Horizons Research Summary
Publication date: 2007
Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Programme (PDF)
Osei,Ivy; Garshong,Bertha; Banahene,Gertrude; Gyapong,John; Tapsoba,Placide; Askew,Ian; Ahiadeke,Clement; Killian,Richard; Bonku,Edward; Combary,Perle; Sampson,William
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Dissemination of research results through the regional postabortion care (PAC) initiative for francophone Africa
Bagde,Edmond; Tapsoba,Placide
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2004
'It's raining stones': Stigma, violence and HIV vulnerability among men who have sex with men in Dakar, Senegal (abstract) (HTML)
Niang,Cheikh Ibrahima; Tapsoba,Placide; Weiss,Ellen; Diagne,Moustapha; Niang,Youssoupha; Moreau,Amadou; Gomis,Dominique; Wade,Abdoulaye Sidibe; Seck,Karim; Castle,Christopher
Culture, Health and Sexuality 5(6): 499-512
Publication date: 2003
New approaches to integrating STIs, HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health in Bazèga, Burkina Faso
Kabore,Inoussa; Tapsoba,Placide; Askew,Ian; Myers,Jenny
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2003
Meeting the sexual health needs of men who have sex with men in Senegal (PDF)
Niang,Cheikh Ibrahima; Diagne,Moustapha; Niang,Youssoupha; Moreau,Amadou; Gomis,Dominique; Diouf,Maye; Seck,Karim; Wade,Abdoulaye Sidibe; Tapsoba,Placide; Castle,Christopher
Horizons Final Report
Publication date: 2002
Satisfaire aux besoins de santé des hommes qui ont des rapports sexuels avec d'autres hommes au Sénégal (PDF)
Niang,Cheikh Ibrahima; Diagne,Moustapha; Niang,Youssoupha; Moreau,Amadou; Gomis,Dominique; Diouf,Maye; Seck,Karim; Wade,Abdoulaye Sidibe; Tapsoba,Placide; Castle,Christopher
Horizons Final Report
Publication date: 2002
Collecte de l'information pour la prévention des IST et du VIH/SIDA chez les hommes ayant des relations sexuelles avec d'autres hommes à Dakar [Collecting information for STI and HIV/AIDS prevention from men having sex with men in Dakar]
Tapsoba,Placide
Publication date: 2001
Sexualité cónjùgale et prévention des IST/VIH/SIDA chez les femmes enceintes: Implication du conjoint, contexte socioculturel et offre de services [Sexuality among couples and STI/HIV/AIDS prevention among pregnant women: Men's involvement, social and cultural background, and services offered]
Tapsoba,Placide
Horizons Report
Publication date: 2001
L'Approche de l'Analyse Situationnelle pour l'évaluation des services de planification familiale et de santé de la reproduction: Manuel de recherche [The Situation Analysis Approach to Assessing Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services: A Handbook]
Miller,Robert A.; Fisher,Andrew A.; Miller,Kate; Ndhlovu,Lewis; Maggwa,Baker Ndugga; Askew,Ian; Sanogo,Diouratie; Tapsoba,Placide
Publication date: 1999
The Situation Analysis Approach to Assessing Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services: A Handbook (PDF)
Miller,Robert A.; Fisher,Andrew A.; Miller,Kate; Ndhlovu,Lewis; Maggwa,Baker Ndugga; Askew,Ian; Sanogo,Diouratie; Tapsoba,Placide
Publication date: 1997
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E-mail: ptapsoba@popcouncil.org
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