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Two women in white work outfits, smiling and facing forward

Two female health workers at clinic.

From Susan Wright, Senior Advisor, HPN, USAID/Ghana:

“The midwives were effusive about the importance of the training they had received, and I noted that they put as much attention on interpersonal communications as on clinical procedures. Infection prevention was also clearly a priority for them.”

From ACCESS-trained health care staff in the Eastern Region:

Emmanuel Taadi, Senior Health Services Administrator, Kwahu Government Hospital, Atibie on the mountainous Kwahu Ridge
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Augustina Galley, Senior Staff Midwife, Nkwateng village community clinic in the Birim North District
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The ACCESS Program in Ghana builds on current Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) activities being carried out by the USAID-supported Quality Health Partners (QHP) program. Drawing on the efforts of Jhpiego—a key QHP partner—to improve the preservice education of health service providers, ACCESS aims to ensure the quality of MNH services in health facilities as well as to improve community awareness of birth preparedness and danger signs.

To do this, ACCESS is working to translate existing national and regional life-saving skills trainings—supported by QHP and others—into facility-level interventions in target districts by:

Developing the capacity of one district-level hospital of the Ghana Health Service to “perform to standard” in selected essential emergency obstetrical skills, immediate newborn care, and neonatal resuscitation;
Strengthening the skills of clinicians in each hospital, who will serve as MNH experts and clinical instructors in their facilities; and
Improving community knowledge of birth preparedness and recognition of danger signs in newborns and their mothers in the target district communities, through coordination with USAID-funded partner organizations and other local nongovernmental organizations.