Tracking the price of an orange

One of the issues about lockdown has been concerns about the rising costs of food items and other commodities particularly in community markets. On World Health Day we discussed some of the contextual challenges in fighting the novel coronavirus pandemic. Today we track the price of an orange (which is a good source of Vitamin C that people are using to boost their immunity).

Today is World Health Day

The world marks World Health Day 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic takes a toll on populations all over the globe. The WHO guidelines highlight frequent hand washing and maintaining social distance as key strategies in the fight against the pandemic.  

Today's infographic uses data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 7 conducted in 2017 to examine the socio-demographic factors that can make fighting coronavirus challenging in this context.

International Women's Day

Today is International Women's Day - a day to shine a spotlight on gender inequality.

The recent Afrobarometer press release indicated that women in Ghana continue to lag behind males in a number of areas - financial decision-making, political interest and participation, ownership of key assets and education. We have commented earlier on some of the gender differences in science in Ghana.

The U.N provides the sobering information that not a single country has achieved gender equality out of a 129 studied and additionally none are on track to meet the gender-based Sustainable Development Goal indicators.

Sustainable Development Goal 5 which seeks achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls is the main SDG on gender. Today we present three SDG5 indicators for Ghana using available data from the 2017/2018 Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS).

PHC 2020: You count, Get counted

District Census Implementation Committees (DCIC) are being inaugurated all over the country. One of the features of the 2020 PHC is the decentralization of operations to the district level. Each district in the country is to have a DCIC to oversee the conduct of the census within their district. The committee's responsibilities include sensitization and raising awareness on the census, recruitment of enumerators from the district, facilitation of conflict resolution and acquisition of office space for coordination of district census activities etc. The main purpose of the DCIC is to ensure that the census exercise is carried out successfully and all persons who spend census night in their district are enumerated.

Today we outline why it is important that everyone be enumerated in a census in our PHC 2020 series.