Results Brief: 13 November 2025

Key Takeaways
Reproductive and maternal health services are predominantly used by women and girls. In Ghana, these services are expanding, but key gaps in access and quality continue to shor change women’s needs, choices, and rights with regard to antenatal care, maternity care, and family planning. Provider counseling is often incomplete, and maternity services and lifesaving commodities are less available at community-level facilities and in the public sector. 

Inadequate infrastructure, including water, electricity, and toilets, further undermines safe and respectful care. Women’s access to and choice of family planning services and methods is constrained by limited service, provider, and commodity availability. Preventive and protective services, such as cancer screening and gender-based violence screening and care, are scarce, leaving major gaps in women’s right to comprehensive health.

Finally, women face significant out-of-pocket costs, particularly at district and non-public facilities, compounding inequities in access. To achieve women-friendly care, it is important that Ghana expand service readiness in public sector and community facilities and strengthen women’s access to affordable, respectful, and responsive health services.

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