Ghana

Current Projects

Child Health Project
The American Red Cross is partnering with the Ghana Red Cross Society in a Child Health Project to reduce the high incidence of illness and death among children under the age of five. Nearly 30,000 children and mothers in rural districts of the Upper East Region benefit from the behavior change skills taught by 1,242 members of Red Cross Mothers' Clubs. This three-year collaboration is reaching non-literate women with life-saving information about the cause and prevention of the five common childhood killer conditions: diarrhea, pneumonia, measles, malaria and malnutrition.

Past Projects

Measles Initiative (December 2002, December 2001)

To read more about American Red Cross relief efforts in Ghana, go to:

Fighting Measles and Malaria in Ghana

Public Health Multitasking: Measles and Malaria