The DHS Program

Lawrence Quartey
THE AFRICA REPORT (Ghana)

...Statistics from the Ghana Demographic Health Survey (GDHS) show that prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women shot up from 65 per cent to 70 per cent between the period of 2003 and 2008. Eight in every 10 children under the age of five years are also anaemic, a slight increase from the about seven in 10 children, in year 2003...

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Lawrence Quartey
THE AFRICA REPORT (Ghana)

...Statistics from the Ghana Demographic Health Survey (GDHS) show that prevalence of anaemia among pregnant women shot up from 65 per cent to 70 per cent between the period of 2003 and 2008. Eight in every 10 children under the age of five years are also anaemic, a slight increase from the about seven in 10 children, in year 2003...