On a busy day at the Kwapong Health Centre in rural Ghana, Beatrice Nyamekye put contraceptive implants into the arms of a half-dozen women, and gave eight or nine more a three-month hormonal injection to prevent pregnancy.
A few sought condoms or birth control pills, but most wanted something longer lasting.
“They like the implants and injections best of all,” said Ms. Nyamekye, a community health nurse.
But that is changing as more women have been able to get methods that give them a fast, affordable and discreet boost of reproductive autonomy.
Over the past decade, the number of women in the region using modern contraception has nearly doubled to 66 million.
Persons:
Beatrice Nyamekye, ”, Nyamekye
Organizations:
Kwapong Health, United Nations Population Fund
Locations:
Ghana, Saharan Africa