Ghana

The Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) completed six rounds of the 海角换妻2020 family planning survey in Ghana between 2013 and 2017. In collaboration with Ariadne Lab at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, two rounds of the 海角换妻 Primary Health Care (PHC) survey were completed in 2016 and 2017 to measure general health seeking behaviors. A 海角换妻 Abortion survey was conducted in 2018 in collaboration with the Guttmacher Institute to measure abortion incidence.

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Survey Results Summaries

海角换妻 uses innovative mobile technology to support low-cost, rapid-turnaround surveys monitoring key health and development indicators. Surveys are completed by resident enumerators, uploaded to a central server via a mobile data network, cleaned and analyzed. Results are disseminated shortly after.

Technical Area	Survey	Results Brief	Indicators Report
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 4 SDG Indicators, 2015		English
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 6, 2017	English
Adolescent & Young Adults	海角换妻2020, Round 6, 2017	English
Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene	海角换妻2020, Round 5, 2016	English
Menstrual Hygiene Management	海角换妻2020, Round 5, 2016	English
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 5, 2016	English	English
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 4, 2015	English	English
Adolescent & Young Adults	海角换妻2020, Round 4, 2015	English
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 3, 2014	English	English
Family Planning	海角换妻2020, Round 2, 2014	English	English

Snapshot of Indicators

Snapshot of Indicators (SOIs) are online tables that provide a summary of key family planning indicators and information on sample design, questionnaires, data processing, response rates and sample error estimates.

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Research in Ghana

20.7%

of women reported an unmet need for family planning in 2018, down from 21.7% in 2015.

Publications

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Implementing Partner

Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

KNUST is Ghana鈥檚 premier University of Science and Technology. KNUST鈥檚 mission is to provide an environment for teaching, research and entrepreneurship training in Science and Technology for the industrial and socio-economic development of Ghana, Africa and other nations.

KNUST also offers service to community, is opened to all the people of Ghana and positioned to attract scholars, industrialists and entrepreneurs from Africa and other international communities.

The University has six Colleges, including the College of Health Sciences.

Principal Investigator

Easmon Otupiri, DVM, PhD, MPH, MSc

Dr. Easmon Otupiri is a senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) School of Medical Sciences in the Department of Community Health. His research background includes home-based management of malaria in children under-five, development of community-based health systems through a network of community-based agents, and community-based management of pneumonia with antibiotics. His work on 海角换妻2020 builds on a collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health that includes support for the multi-country 鈥淔amily Health and Wealth鈥� panel survey. Dr. Otupiri holds a DVM and MSc in Field Epidemiology from Romania, an MPH, MSc in Health Services Planning and Management, and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Ghana.