Epidemic
Amid Turning Tide, AIDS Claimed 1 Million Lives In 2016
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN...
Health Experts Declare Extra Measures Against Abuse of Tobacco
Health experts and stakeholder organizations have declared a seven-point of action to be taken by government on tobacco...
Cholera Leaves Yemen Hospitals In Constant Code Black
At Yemen's Sabaeen Hospital, code black is an understatement: patients sleep three to a bed, on the bare floor or...
The Plague of the Poor
Cholera, which has hit war-ravaged Yemen with 100,000 suspected cases and 789 deaths, is a highly contagious waterborne...
Cholera Kills 315 In Yemen In Less Than Month
Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid...
WHO Eyes Vaccine Trial For Ebola-Hit DR Congo
An unlicenced Ebola vaccine could soon be tested in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of Congo hit by an...
Fear Grips Liberians As Mystery Disease Claims 9 Lives
A mysterious disease has killed nine people in Liberia, leading the health authorities to issue guidelines to citizens...
Diarrhoea Kills More Than 500 In Somalia Since January
Cholera and acute diarrhoea have killed more than 500 people and left tens of thousands of others sick in drought-hit...
Nigeria Starts Vaccination Drive Against Meningitis Outbreak
Nigeria has started a mass vaccination programme in a bid to stop an outbreak of meningitis. More than 300 people have...
Vaccine Cost Cripples Response To Outbreak
Nigeria needs as many as 800,000 doses of the type C meningitis vaccine to deal with the outbreak Nigeria does not have...
Is Yellow Fever the New Zika Virus?
Health experts fear a random outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil could affect millions if it isn't contained. The entire...
Birth Defects Jump Twentyfold In Zika-Hit Mothers
Pregnant women infected with the Zika virus last year were 20 times more likely to bear children with birth defects...
Herbal Medicine Can’t Cure HIV/AIDS
Dr. Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has stated that the Commission did not have the...
Bill Gates Warns the World To Prep For Bio-Terrorism
Bill Gates says it’s time to redirect some of the money the world spends on weapons to prepare for a looming threat:...
UNAIDS Appoints First Lady HIV/AIDS Ambassador
The UNAIDS has confred the Premier HIV Ambassador for Ghana, for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission and...
World Aids Day
Today is world HIV day. When this epidemic started, there were arguments about whether it originated from Africa or...
Consolidate Efforts To #endAIDS By 2030
(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease...
Trump’s Victory Indicates Polls’ Failure In Reflecting Public Sentiment
In Nov. 8 U. S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the presidency despite most of the analysts and opinion polls...
Govt Must Keep Promise To Support PLWAs
The Ghana News Agency (GNA), on Monday, published a heart-rending story, which painted a very gloomy picture of the...