Organon SSA Amplifies Women’s Health, Family Planning Priorities At WHX Leaders’ Summit In Ghana
Strengthening Pan-African Commitments, Sustainable Financing For Reproductive Health
Accra, Ghana – Organon Sub-Saharan Africa strengthened its role as a leading advocate for women’s health and family planning during its participation at the WHX Leaders’ Summit in Accra, Ghana, one of Africa’s premier convenings dedicated to healthcare investment, innovation, and multisector collaboration.
The Summit brought together Heads of State, Ministers of Health, global institutions, and private-sector leaders to unlock sustainable solutions for Africa’s healthcare future.
At this year’s Summit, Organon SSA participated in a high-level panel discussion on Advancing Women’s Health in Africa and hosted a dedicated multisectoral side session on sustainable financing for reproductive health.
Together, these engagements reflected Organon’s continued commitment to elevating women’s health within national development, financing, and health system reform conversations across the continent.
Organon SSA’s presence at WHX was a deliberate contribution to the Summit’s overarching goals, with the organisation engaging stakeholders on the importance of placing women’s health and family planning at the centre of health system reform.
Through its panel and side session, Organon emphasised the links between expanded access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), improved health outcomes, and stronger national development.
The Summit created space for structured dialogue on evidence-based policy, investment, innovation, and scalable financing models for women and girls across the continent—an agenda that mirrors Organon’s ongoing commitments in Sub-Saharan Africa
During the side session, multisectoral stakeholders explored how:
· Family planning and SRHR can be embedded into Universal Health Coverage strategies and national development agendas;
· Innovative financing and blended models can unlock long-term investment for women’s health;
· Government–private sector–community partnerships can strengthen affordability and access;
· Prioritising family planning is essential to reducing maternal mortality and unintended pregnancy.
The discussion built on Organon’s ongoing regional commitments, including recent partnership work with FP2030 and the Uganda Ministry of Health on sustainable financing for family planning.
The Uganda Sustainable Financing Workshop demonstrated how domestic solutions, multi-sector convening, and evidence-driven models can reduce unintended pregnancies, drive cost efficiency, and strengthen health systems.
Organon’s role across Africa continues to evolve from advocacy into implementation—creating platforms for innovative financing, expanding proven community health solutions, and strengthening policy alignment for women’s health.
The side event featured a distinguished panel of global voices in women’s health, their contributions underscored the importance of multisector collaboration in driving affordability, sustainable financing, and evidence-based investment to expand access for underserved populations.
Prof. Tlou reiterated the central role of women’s health in national development and systems resilience.
Dr. Macharia emphasised the importance of scaling family-planning access across youth and vulnerable groups—insights that validated Organon’s approach of strengthening systems through partnerships, innovation, and financing.
Beyond the side event, Organon contributed to the Summit’s official programme, where Mokgadi Mashishi participated in the high-level panel on Advancing Women’s Health in Africa.
The discussion emphasised public-private collaboration and sustainable financing as prerequisites for universal access to reproductive health.
Speaking after the Summit, Mokgadi Mashishi said: Her message reflects Organon’s expanding partnerships across the continent, including its collaboration with Amref Health Africa in Uganda to advance SRHR implementation and systems strengthening through co-design workshops and aligned programming.
A central theme across WHX was sustainable financing for reproductive health, with discussions echoing insights from Organon’s Uganda financing convening—reinforcing that investing in SRHR is not only lifesaving, but economically sound.
Organon’s contribution helped shape the conversations that will define partnerships and policy action for the coming years.
As the African proverb reminds us, “If you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” The same applies to health: when women have access to care, communities prosper, economies strengthen, and nations grow.
