“The Ghana government is fully committed to supporting the Initiative and will mobilize all the necessary political, human and financial resources to make the SUN Roadmap operational in Ghana and welcomes any support from our international partners.”
- Dr Joseph Chireh, Minister of Health, Ghana, March 2011
State of Nutrition in Ghana:
- Ministry of Health
- Ghana Health Services
- Ghana Health Services – Nutrition and Malaria Control for Child Survival Project
SUN Activities:
- Scaling Up Nutrition in Ghana – Progress Report – Ghana’s presentation from the SUN Workshop on September 21st, 2011 in NYC
- Ghana plans to launch SUN in November 2011- September 12, 2011
- Government to launch SUN initiative – November 28, 2011
- USAID/Ghana Mission Director Cheryl Anderson’s remarks at the launch of Scaling Up Nutrition - December 8, 2011
- Scaling Up Nutrition Launched In Accra – December 9, 2011
- Ghana to scale up interventions to improve nutrition – March 31, 2012
Success Stories:
| A salt producer from Ghana eliminates iodine deficiency one bag a time | |
| Story by the Micronutrient Initiative | |
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Madhobi Rani Roy and her husband Sushil Chandra Roy live in a village of Jaldhaka Upazila (sub-district) in the northern area of Bangladesh. Like many poor Bangladeshi families, they do not have any land of their own and live in a hut built on government land. Read more… |
| Ghanaian Women Go Into Business To Tackle Goitre | |
| Story by the World Food Programme (WFP) | |
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A group of businesswomen in the Gbumbgum region of northeastern Ghana has found a route out of poverty through a product which their community badly needs—iodated salt. Iodine deficiency is rampant in Gbumbgum, where the swollen necks of people suffering from goitre are a common sight. Read more… |