JUNE 2005 -- The Final Report for the Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project in Ghana September 1998–June 2004 summarizes the overall design, strategy, activities and output of the FHI-managed IMPACT Project's work in Ghana. The report describes individual subprojects and key regional activities in detail over the duration of the IMPACT Project's work.

In July 1998, FHI initiated the country program in Ghana to focus on strengthening the NACP, the National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL) and the Ghana Police Service. IMPACT/Ghana's program strategy complemented Ghana's national program, with its emphasis on reducing risk behaviors, strengthening care and support, improving the quality of STI services and increasing the availability and use of data for decision making.

IMPACT's activities were designed to contribute to USAID/Ghana's Strategic Objective 3 (SO3), which sought to improve family health in Ghana by achieving the following results:

• Increased demand for reproductive health services
• Improved quality of reproductive health services
• Increased data collection for program decision making