Ghana stopped mass drug administration (MDA) for lymphatic filariasis in 94% of endemic health districts in the country following the likely interruption of transmission of in 106 out of 116 districts as of FY23 (October 2022 – September 2023).
Ghana was validated by the World Health Organization as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem in 2018—the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve this.
An onchocerciasis elimination mapping was conducted in three districts in FY23, resulting in the need for MDA in seven communities.
Ghana has the largest number of districts out of all of the countries supported for schistosomiasis/soil-transmitted helminthiasis (SCH/STH), with a total of 261 districts. Between 2022 and 2024, Ghana conducted its second SCH/STH impact survey (the first re-assessment was in 2015) in 42 districts, with three districts supported by the Task Force for Global Health to conduct a SCH Oversampling survey and two districts self-funded by the Ghana Health Service. The data from these surveys were used to re-assess the country’s treatment strategy going forward and in 2024 the country started the move to sub-district MDA. At the end this fiscal year, another 27 districts will be re-evaluated.
Standard Disease-Specific Indicators as of FY21
FY21 is October 2020 through September 2021
of ever-endemic districts have stopped mass drug administration (MDA) as of FY21
(i.e. have passed stop MDA survey, TAS1 (First Transmission Assessment Survey))
of ever-endemic districts in post-surveillance phase as of FY21
(i.e. have passed last surveillance survey, TAS3 (third Transmission Assessment Survey))
of persons no longer at risk as of FY21 among those who were ever at risk
Ghana, which received support from USAID through the End in Africa program, was validated by the WHO as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem in 2018.
of ever endemic districts have been treated at least once as of FY21
(in cases where a country has more treated districts reported than, ever endemic, the adjusted percent is 100%)