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In 2022, WHO Ghana collaborated with the Ministry of Health,
Ghana Health Service, allied institutions and other stakeholders to deliver interventions in support of the Government of Ghana's health sector agenda. These interventions were delivered through our five pillars namely (i)
Communicable Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), (ii) Life Course (iii), Emergency Preparedness and Response (iv) Healthier Population and (v) Corporate Services and Enabling Functions.
A number of achievements were chalked in these five operational areas.
In the area of communicable and non-communicable diseases, we cohosted International Strategic Dialogue to raise the profile of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) agenda within the SDGs in Ghana. The country was also supported to increase immunization coverage in 2022 even as the response to COVID-19 continues.
Furthermore, our public health emergency preparedness and response support was unwavering. Ghana was supported to respond to public health emergencies including the Marburg virus outbreak and monkeypox. The country successfully interrupted the Marburg virus outbreak and declared it over.
In 2022, WHO also provided support to the government in scaling up the capacity of the Ministry of Health, at all levels, to address health systems challenges as pertains to health financing/economics and Human resources for Health in Ghana. Technical support was also provided to the Ministry of Health to update COVID-19 Standard Treatment Guidelines and EssentialMedicines List (STG/EML) in alignment with the WHO COVID-19Living Guidance for COVID-19 to produce the third edition of the guidelines.
In our efforts to promote a healthier population, we worked with the Ghana Health Service and other partners, over80 health and environmental health professionals across 14districts have had their capacities enhanced to identify, advocate, plan for and monitor environmental health risks and manage healthcare waste in the Okyeman area. Over 200 healthcare professionals, comprising program planners, information and disease control officers,and physicians have improved knowledge of gender, equity and rights; and the capacity to conduct health inequality monitoring to advance equitable health services.