Ghana’s First Lady Mrs. Theresa Kufuor called for the strengthening of partnerships aimed at funding and improving sexual and reproductive health programmes. She noted that the public health sector could not attain targets of the nation alone and called on the private health sector to be a significant contributor to the vision of the health sector.

The First Lady made the call in a speech read for her at the launch of a project dubbed: From Donorship to Ownership in Accra, an advocacy initiative of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) aimed at influencing national policy formulation and increasing national, political and financial commitments to SRHR. The project funded through the European Union will run for one year and is currently being implemented in Nigeria, Burkina Faso and The Gambia.