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Ghana

Capital city
Accra
Latitude
5.55
Longitude
-0.22
Geo
POINT (-0.22 5.55)
Country Boundaries
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USAID Nutrition Profile
USAID Nutrition Profile

“When a King has Good Counsellors, His Reign is Peaceful”

To draw leaders’ attention to the problem of stunting and their role in improving young children’s nutrition outcomes, SPRING/Ghana produced a 24-minute advocacy video. The video explores the extent of the problem of stunting in northern Ghana, describes what can be done by leaders and household heads to improve nutritional outcomes during a child’s first 1,000 days, and features leaders in northern Ghana who are working to influence their communities (and particularly male heads of households) to take action for a brighter future.

SPRING Presents at Ghana’s Micronutrient Task Team Meeting

SPRING attended the Micronutrient Task Team (MTT) Meeting in Accra, Ghana on February 17, 2016. The MTT is a multi-stakeholder group spearheaded by the Nutrition Department of the Family Health Division of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Micronutrients Technical Advisor Denish Moorthy presented the findings from the report on the Landscape Analysis on Anemia and Anemia Programming in Ghana, which was developed by SPRING with support from the GHS. Consultant Dr.

SPRING Holds HemoCue® Training of Trainers Workshop in Tamale, Ghana

The regions in the north of Ghana have a high prevalence of anemia among children under five, and pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Recognizing the limited anemia screening capacity at Ghana Health Service (GHS) facilities, USAID, through the SPRING and RING projects, distributed HemoCue® devices to these facilities in the Northern, Upper East, and Upper West Regions of the country. HemoCue® devices are used to measure hemoglobin levels in the blood for the purpose of screening for anemia.

U.S. Ambassador meets with Health Facility Representatives in Kasuliyili

The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, took an informative tour of the community-based health planning and services (CHPS) compound in Kasuliyili of the Tolon District in the Northern Region on March 31, 2016. This was the Ambassador’s first visit to northern Ghana where there are major U.S. Government-funded projects in agriculture and nutrition under the Feed the Future initiative. Dr.

Moving the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Agenda Forward in West Africa

SPRING, USAID's Bureau for Food Security, and Bureau for Global Health hosted the Multi-sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning & Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE), West Africa from January 19 to 21, 2016, in Accra, Ghana. Staff from the USAID Bureau for Food Security, Bureau for Global Health, USAID Missions in West Africa, implementing partners, host country governments, and other experts will share their experiences and research, enabling widespread engagement across the countries and improving understanding of emerging concepts.