The Ghana Health Service has a assured it has put in place a strong surveillance system to prevent outbreak of dengue fever. According to the Service, qualified persons have been trained to be on...
UK stands by Sierra Leone on first anniversary of the end of Ebola UK support will help develop resilient health systems, improve education and increase access to clean water and electricity...
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus. The employee was working on Monday in a lab with pigs that had been infected...
Dr Hanson Nortey, the Deputy Programmes Director of the Tuberculosis Control programme, has warned about the abuse of antibiotics, which he said would create a security and economic crisis if not...
US Secretary of State, John Kerry has touted the United States’ engagement around the world and efforts it has put into supporting people, around the globe. The US, he said, was through various...
The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Hassan sits silently and stares into the distance, he has tired of brushing his hair and an upright comb is tangled into the back of his curls....
The National Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Nii Allotey Brew Hammond, has taken a swipe at successive governments in the last two decades saying they have failed to develop the...
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African states has ended in Accra. The initiative is to create a Regional Rapid Response...
Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade. At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their...
President John Mahama on Wednesday addressed the United Nation’s 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The president lamented about challenges some Africans encounter while migrating...
A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.
The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the...
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is expected to be declared over as a crucial milestone is reached. It is due to be confirmed that 42 days has elapsed since the last new case of the deadly virus -...
A suspected Ebola case at the University Hospital of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is causing fear and panic at the hospital and among the university community.
The...
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held an Ebola and Cholera surveillance and contact tracing training for health workers from all the Regions.
The three-day training was to equip participants with...
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how to deal with the devastating infections of the Ebola virus.
The two countries...
Stigmatization and stereotyping are byproducts of ignorance and intolerance.
They can lead to irreversible damage of the psyche of an individual and an entire community.
For the Liberian community,...
(Accra, GNA) - In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is embarking on a five nation tour to further emphasize unbridled...
Practically everyone at the march had a story about someone who refused to shake hands or moved to a different bus seat when they realized they were near a Liberian.
"Once they hear our accent,...
The Ivory Coast, currently free of the Ebola epidemic ravaging its neighbours, has launched a hunt for a Guinean health worker who may have fled his home country after possibly catching the...
A day after the World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola, the doctor who treated the country's first case of the deadly virus and later died from the disease herself is being hailed...
