By Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA
Kumasi, Oct, 02, GNA – The Muslim Family Counselling Services, has organized a forum to discuss issues on family planning and adolescent reproductive health with the people in the Asawase community, in Kumasi.
This was a satellite event ahead of an international conference on family planning to be held in Kigali, Rwanda from12-15th November, this year.
It also formed part of this year’s World Contraception Day celebration, which seeks to increase awareness of contraceptive methods available to enable young people make informed choices on their sex and reproductive health.
Mr Mohammed Bun Bida, Lead Advocate for the Inclusion of Family Planning, speaking at the event, said it was time the people, especially women and young people in Muslim communities were helped to have better understanding of the importance of family planning.
He said the aim of the forum was also to keep the people abreast of the new National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) amended Act 2012, (Act 852) meant to include clinical methods of family planning into the benefit package of NHIS to benefit women of reproductive age.
That would also to contribute to the attainment of Ghana’s commitment to Family Planning 2020 (FP2020).
Mr. Bida said the FP2020 was targeting 120,000,000 additional women with information and services on family planning by year 2020.
Around the world, he noted, the satellite family planning events were being hosted to ignite local conversations on the issue ahead of the international conference, which would be the fifth global gathering.
The conference is expected to highlight the extensive and far-reaching social and economic benefits of family planning investments – for individuals, families and countries.
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