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What’s shaping Ghana’s health sector this quarter?

Our Q3 2026 Newsletter highlights progress in ⬇️

✅clinical research
✅mental health
✅digital health innovation and
✅emergency preparedness

alongside efforts to strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes.

Explore the highlights and read the full newsletter➡️ bit.ly/483dWlg

Today, we joined stakeholders to review and validate Ghana’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy, bringing together diverse expertise and perspectives to shape the country’s approach to suicide prevention.

The strategy seeks to strengthen national coordination, promote mental health, improve access to support services and advance timely, life-saving interventions for people at risk of suicide.

The @WHO Director-General's Special Initiative for Mental Health (DG-SIMH) mission in Ghana participated in the Mental Health Stakeholder Coordinating meeting.

The meeting brings stakeholders together to strengthen coordination, align efforts and foster partnerships for sustainable impact.

Through collective action and shared knowledge, we can accelerate progress towards accessible, equitable and people-centred mental health services for all.

As part of the WHO Director-General's Special Initiative for Mental Health (DG-SIMH) mission in Ghana, the team engaged @_GHSofficial on efforts to reduce access to highly hazardous pesticides.

Restricting access to these pesticides is a proven strategy for preventing suicide and strengthening mental health outcomes.

The @WHO Director-General's Special Initiative for Mental Health (DG-SIMH) aims to expand access to quality mental health services.

This week, a team from @WHO is in Ghana to advance the initiative's work.

The team paid a courtesy call on Dr @BrakaFiona, @WHOGhana Representative, to brief her on the mission and planned engagements.