Health Foundation of Ghana was formed in February of 1998 out of the Dreyfus Health Foundation Office in Accra, which was established in 1991. We work in partnership with donor organizations, other non-governmental agencies, and government agencies.

The Health Foundation is a direct response to a challenge in the health delivery system in Ghana. In spite of massive improvement in health delivery infrastructure in the last two decades, Ghana’s health delivery system is still inadequate. Access to medical facilities is generally poor and only 50% of the population have access to medical facilities.

Avoidable deaths are not uncommon. Concern for the improvement in the delivery system ranks high, not withstanding the inadequacy of public resources to meet the needs of the population. Preventive medicine as against curative medicine has been advocated. Poverty and ignorance about basic hygienic, and poor environmental sanitation has led to the resurgence of communicable diseases. HIV pandemic is a real threat to our development.

There is the urgent need for private non-governmental sources to supplement government efforts if the population is to have access to improved health services. The Health Foundation is a product of this need and has over the past 13 years assisted the government in improving the health status of the communities we work in.