Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the leadership of those countries on available interventions to support the regional body to...
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday, out of about 4,000 patients thought to have been infected in the three countries...
The Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Busumuru Kofi Annan has warned that if measures are not put in place now to fight the deadly virus, Ebola, it will escalate beyond control.
“Without...
There are those who talk and those who act. Some have decided to be action figures to fight against the current cholera epidemic and augment the fight against Ebola.
#NoChobo is a challenge to give...
The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus.
Press sources have been asked not to be mentioned for security reasons confirmed to APA on...
College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States as administrators try to insulate their campuses from the worst Ebola outbreak...
President John Dramani Mahama has lamented the ostracism and neglect countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus have been subjected to.
He said the increasing travel bans and border closures and...
The World Health Organization says the current deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people before...
The Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe says the Africa Development Bank has earmarked $60m for countries affected by the Ebola virus.
A further $150 million is available by way of loans and...
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria's patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The death of doctor has been confirmed by the...
The Nigerian Government has announced the successful containment of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Onyebuchi Chukwu, minister of health, who made this known in a statement by Dan Nwomeh,...
Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak that highlights the health and sanitation challenges facing one of Africa's...
The government has given the go ahead to public and private universities to re-open their institutions for the 2014/2015 academic year with effect from August 27, 2014.
A statement issued in Accra...
The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory's University Hospital after contracting Ebola is scheduled to be released today, August 21, 2014.
The doctor who contracted...
Ghana could be forced to ban flights from Ebola affected countries once the spillover rate becomes threatening in West Africa.
Kenya has already banned flights from Sierra Leone and Liberia as a...
A Virologist at the Ghana Veterinary Service, Dr. Joseph Adongo-Awuni has cautioned the public to place equal emphasis on the animal to human mode of transmitting the Ebola virus.
“We are still at...
Fear and ignorance have become obtrusive elements stymieing governmental and international efforts in the fight against the current pervasive West African Ebola Epidemic.
In Ghana, there have been...
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted.
An angry mob attacked the centre in the city's...
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
News of the discharge of the unnamed...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths...
