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Obed Nuobe: Project acceleration leads to more pregnant women vaccinated in Suaman District, Ghana

ghana immunization Jan 05, 2020

GENEVA, 2 August 2019 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) – Obed Nuobe has been a Health Information Officer in the Suaman District, Ghana, since 2015. In July 2019, he completed the “Reducing Inequities and Improving Coverage” Scholar course.

He is one of more than 600 Alumni of the WHO Scholar programme from 53 countries who joined the Impact Accelerator last month, signing a Pledge to “work with others to transform projects led by Scholars into action and results that will improve immunization outcomes.”

Obed Nuobe

“When I analysed the data in our District, I saw that only 51.7% of pregnant women received the Td2 + vaccines in 2018. Our target was 80% – and we were a long way from meeting it.”

“Our expected pregnancy rate shows that we should be vaccinating about 93 women per month to meet the annual target. We averaged 47. Yet 95% of pregnant women who visit our health facilities are checked for HB and tested for HIV. So there was a gap in the system somewhere.”

“The District...

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