Commitment title:

Universal Health Coverage including reproductive health services

Commitment description:

Equitable distribution of resources for health facilities across all geographic regions including the posting of health professionals.

Completion/rehabilitation of Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS).

Ensure implementation of legislative instrument for the Mental Health Act 2012 (Act 846) by 2020.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Universal Health Coverage including reproductive health services
Submitted by
Ghana
Thematic area
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)
Commitment category

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.