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83% of new HIV infections among Ghanaian youth are young women but prevention only reaches 3 regions

Young people accounted for 27.5 per cent of Ghana's new HIV infections in 2025. But the country's 2024 HIV estimates reveal a stark gender imbalance: females accounted for 83.1 per cent of new infections among 15 to 24-year-olds. The figures raise urgent questions about whether prevention services are reaching the young women most at risk.

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Three young Ghanaian women in colorful African print walking together confidently on a street in Accra, one carrying books.

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After survivors report gender-based violence in Ghana, the data stops where justice should begin

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Abstract illustration showing a report with data turning into question marks before reaching a breaking justice scale over Ghana's map, with silhouette of a woman.

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Perimenopause in Ghana: What women need to know about symptoms, treatment and work

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Ghanaian market trader in her late 40s holding a woven hand fan at her produce stall in Accra.

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Period poverty in Africa needs more than pads, new research shows

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Ghanaian junior high school girls in classroom with free sanitary pad programme packs for public schools

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Breast cancer treatment carried an average economic cost of GH¢34,631 per patient in 2019. Who bears it?

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Ghana records about 5,000 breast cancer cases a year. Why are so many women diagnosed late?

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Body & Safety

83% of new HIV infections among Ghanaian youth are young women but prevention only reaches 3 regions

After survivors report gender-based violence in Ghana, the data stops where justice should begin

Perimenopause in Ghana: What women need to know about symptoms, treatment and work

Period poverty in Africa needs more than pads, new research shows

Breast cancer treatment carried an average economic cost of GH¢34,631 per patient in 2019. Who bears it?

Ghana records about 5,000 breast cancer cases a year. Why are so many women diagnosed late?

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83% of new HIV infections among Ghanaian youth are young women but prevention only reaches 3 regions

After survivors report gender-based violence in Ghana, the data stops where justice should begin

Perimenopause in Ghana: What women need to know about symptoms, treatment and work

Period poverty in Africa needs more than pads, new research shows

Breast cancer treatment carried an average economic cost of GH¢34,631 per patient in 2019. Who bears it?

Ghana records about 5,000 breast cancer cases a year. Why are so many women diagnosed late?

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