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Life On Hold! Girl, 13, Battles Diabetes

At her family house at Osu, in the Greater Accra Region, 13-year-old Pamela Wayor sat on a wooden bench. From a...

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Greater Accra Regional Hospital Receives Support From GE Healthcare

General Electric (GE), a digital Industrial Company has partnered with the Ghana Ministry of Health and Bouygues...

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Meningitis Caused Almost 180 Deaths In Niger Since January

At least 179 people, almost half of them children, have died of meningitis since January in Niger, where some 3,000...

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Sly Raps NDC Cadres For ‘future’ Partnership

Mr Sylvester Mensah, who is speculated to be eyeing the presidency in next year’s elections, has interacted with...

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Yemen Cholera Death Toll Reaches 184

A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 184 people in recent weeks with another 11,000 suspected cases across...

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Boko Haram Insurgents Kill Six Farmers In Nigeria

Boko Haram jihadists have killed six farmers who were working on their land near the northeastern Nigerian city of...

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Yemen Rebels Declare State of Emergency Over Cholera Outbreak

Rebel authorities in Yemen's capital have sounded the alarm over a spreading cholera outbreak that has killed dozens in...

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UCC Hospital Warns of Possible Cholera Outbreak

The Directorate of Health Services , University of Cape Coast (UCC), has cautioned people within the Cape Coast...

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South Sudanese Refugees Need $1.4 Bn This Year

The United Nations said Monday that $1.4 billion (1.3 billion euros) was needed this year alone to help the nearly two...

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Emergency In Sanaa As Cholera Kills Scores

A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of...

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Hunger and Fear In Syria’s Tabqa After IS Defeat

When Dalal Ahmad heard that the fighters who expelled the Islamic State group from the Syrian town of Tabqa were...

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Family Doctors Fear That the Worst Is Yet To Come

The theme for this year’s celebration is ‘Depression and suicide - the role of the family physician’ Family...

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Nigeria Meningitis Death Toll Tops 1,000

More than 1,000 people have died in an outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria, the Centre for Disease Control said Thursday,...

International

HIV Life Expectancy ‘near Normal’

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a...

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‘Think Health, Think Medical Doctor’ Posturing of the Media Deadly [Article]

This article has been necessitated by my longtime observation that the Ghanaian media treat health in a restricted,...

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HIV Life Expectancy ‘near Normal’ Thanks To New Drugs

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a...

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My Husband Was Into Sakawa; He Did Not Die of HIV/AIDS

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah a one time HIV/AIDS Ambassador has made startling revelations about her late husband who according...

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Ghana Sets May 10 As World Lupus Day

The Ministries of Health and Gender and Social protection have jointly proclaimed the 10th of May as World Lupus Day in...

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Hundreds of Suspected Cholera Cases In Yemen

At least 570 suspected cases of cholera have surfaced in war-torn Yemen in the past three weeks, sparking fears of a...