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One health journey. One trusted record.

Your health.
Your family.
Your journey.

Healthy Ghana helps you understand your health, build healthier habits, and stay connected to the care and information you need.

Free to join. Works with or without a smartphone — by app, USSD, SMS, or your nearest community health worker.

Health for every stage of life

From the first heartbeat to a long, well-lived old age

One platform that grows with a person — and with a household. Nobody is handed a service built for somebody else's stage of life.

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Pregnancy

Antenatal visits, warning signs, and week-by-week guidance.

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Baby

Feeding, immunisations and growth from the very first days.

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Childhood

Diverse diets, milestones and school-age wellbeing.

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Young adult

Blood pressure and sugar checks long before symptoms.

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Family life

One account for parents, partners and children.

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Older adult

Medicines, mobility and staying independent for longer.

The challenge

Too much illness is discovered after it has already changed a life.

Prevention starts when a reading, a meal, a missed appointment or a warning sign becomes visible early enough to act on it.

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Know your health

A number becomes useful the moment you can see where it's heading

Healthy Ghana keeps your readings in one place and shows the trend behind them — in plain language, without alarm and without diagnosis.

Blood pressure

142/90mmHg

Recorded this morning

Elevated

Seven-day trend · 7-day average 138/88

“Your readings have been elevated this week. Persistent elevated blood pressure can increase health risk — it's worth arranging a professional assessment.”

Eat well

Built around the food Ghanaians already love

Waakye, kontomire, banku, grilled tilapia, garden eggs, groundnut soup — adapted for heart health, diabetes or pregnancy, never replaced with food nobody cooks.

A plate of waakye with grilled tilapia, kontomire stew, garden eggs, boiled egg and fresh salad
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Food diary

Log a meal in seconds, or photograph your plate for a clearly labelled estimate.

Healthy Ghana Kitchen

Recipes and meal plans from Ghanaian kitchens, with salt, sugar and fibre made visible.

Packaged foods

Search a barcode or brand and see what a serving really carries before you buy.

Move more

Movement that fits the life you actually live

A walk to the market counts. So does a beginner routine on a bedroom floor. Follow guided sessions for pregnancy, older adults, or your first week back.

  • Walk
  • Run
  • Strength
  • Mobility
  • Stretch
  • Beginner
  • At home
  • Pregnancy
  • Older adults
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Mother & child

The first thousand days, held carefully

Antenatal care, safe feeding, immunisations and growth monitoring — with the warning signs written plainly, in the language you think in.

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Feeding & early days

Exclusive breastfeeding guidance, then complementary feeding, week by week.

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Growth monitoring

Weight and height plotted against reference curves, with faltering growth flagged early.

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Pregnancy care

Visit schedules, danger signs and a record your midwife can read in seconds.

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A household view

Health is personal. Care is often shared.

Parents can follow a child’s growth, families can coordinate care, and every adult still decides what remains private.

Healthy Ghana Learn

Health writing worth reading

Reviewed by Ghanaian clinicians, written for people — not for a medical journal.

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Heart health

Understanding your blood pressure

What the two numbers mean, why one high reading is not a diagnosis, and when to act.

6 min read
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Nutrition

Five Ghanaian foods that help you eat more fibre

Beans, kontomire, plantain, brown rice and groundnut — everyday food, quietly working for you.

4 min read
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Child health

Why children need diverse foods

A varied plate builds immunity, growth and concentration in the classroom.

5 min read
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Healthy Ghana Live

Sessions with clinicians, in your community and on your phone

Live talks, clinics and question-and-answer sessions on hypertension, diabetes, nutrition, pregnancy and child health — free to join.

Health where life happens

From a household visit to a national pattern.

Community workers can record care offline. Clinicians see only what a person approves. Institutions see protected patterns, never individual lives.

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Access for everyone

No Ghanaian left out because of a device, a network, or a language

Four ways in, all leading to the same record. Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani and English throughout.

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Smartphone & web

The full experience — readings, meals, learning and your family's record, online or on light data.

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USSD & SMS

Dial a short code from any basic phone to log a reading, get a reminder, or reach help.

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Community health worker

A trained worker records your visit at home or at the CHPS compound on your behalf.

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Clinic & hospital

Show a time-limited code and the clinician sees exactly what you approved — nothing more.

One record

A check you take today should still be there wherever you are cared for

Every reading, visit and prescription joins one thread that belongs to you. Your community health worker adds to it. Your clinic reads it. And in an emergency, any hospital in the country can see exactly what it needs to — with your permission, and nothing more.

No repeated tests. No lost folders. No starting the story again.

YouToday's checkYour local clinicAny hospital, anywhere

Your privacy

Your data stays yours

A national health record only works if people trust it. So control sits with you, by default, everywhere in the system.

You choose what's shared

From a basic summary to your full clinical record — you set the scope for every person or facility you grant access to.

Every access is logged

See exactly who viewed, changed, or shared your information, and when — no silent access, ever.

Encrypted, always

Your records are encrypted in storage and in transit, protected the same way regardless of how you connect.

Never sold, never advertised on

Your health information funds nothing but your own care. It is not a product, and it never will be.

Healthy Ghana explains patterns and points you toward care — it never diagnoses on its own. That judgment always belongs to a licensed health professional.

Beyond the individual

For providers, communities & institutions

Healthy Ghana is a shared system, not just an app — with a different view for every kind of user.

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Hospitals & clinics

A secure clinical view of exactly what each patient has approved — never more.

Provider sign in
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Community programs

Record outreach visits and screenings, even without a personal device on hand.

Community portal
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Government & research partners

Aggregated, de-identified population trends — never an individual's record.

Population insights

One secure account, wherever you sign in. Your role determines your view — the same identity you use to check your own health is what a hospital, a community worker, or a government partner uses to reach theirs, each strictly limited to what they're authorized to see.

Where Ghana stands today

Published national figures, not our estimates

Every number below is quoted from one national survey of Ghanaian households. We publish them unchanged, because prevention starts with an honest baseline.

Children under five who are stunted

18%

Short for their age — a marker of long-term undernutrition. 6% are wasted and 12% underweight.

Children 6–59 months who are anaemic

49%

28% mildly, 20% moderately and 1% severely anaemic.

Women aged 15–49 who are anaemic

41%

23% mildly, 17% moderately anaemic.

Babies exclusively breastfed under six months

53%

Up from 32% in 1988, but roughly unchanged since 2014.

Children 6–23 months meeting minimum dietary diversity

41%

Fed at least five of the eight defined food groups the previous day.

Under-five mortality

40per 1,000

Infant mortality is 28 and neonatal mortality 17 per 1,000 live births.

Women receiving antenatal care from a skilled provider

98%

88% attended four or more antenatal visits.

Births assisted by a skilled provider

88%

Up from 41% in 1988 — one of Ghana's clearest health gains.

Source: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2022 — Key Indicators Report, Ghana Statistical Service with The DHS Program, May 2023. Read the report. Healthy Ghana publishes no impact claims of its own until they can be independently measured.

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Know. Learn. Live healthy.

Join for free and start with your first reading today — a health record built to last a lifetime and travel wherever you do.