Yaba Launches Foundation
The 2016 TV3 reality show, Ghana’s Most Beautiful winner, Nelly Yaba Gbogboe, will launch her foundation today at the La Palm Royale Beach Hotel in Accra. Her foundation, which is known as...
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Africa Gets Generic Version of Most Effective HIV Drug
The generic version of the most advanced drug against HIV has been introduced in Kenya, a first in Africa where more than 25 million have the disease, the NGO Unitaid said Wednesday. The drug,...
Kenyans Are ‘first In Africa To Get Generic of Latest Aids Drug’
Kenya is the first African country to start using a new generic Aids drug that can improve and prolong the lives of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments, the...
Kenyans Are ‘first In Africa To Get Generic of Latest Aids Drug’
Kenya is the first African country to start using a new generic Aids drug that can improve and prolong the lives of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments, the...
Avoid Raw Fish Dishes During Your Holiday In Thailand!
You may think eating traditional dishes when you go abroad is custom – but you should think twice before doing so in Thailand. Koi pla, made of raw fish ground with spices and lime, is a favourite...
Thai Doctors Battle Cancer-Causing Fish Dish
It wasn't until he got to medical school that Narong Khuntikeo finally discovered what caused the liver cancer that took both of his parents' lives: their lunch. Like millions of Thais across the...
Namoale Hit Out At FDA Over Laxity In Prosecuting Fake Food and Drug Dealers
Former Food and Agric minister, Nii Amansah Namoale, has hit out at the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) over its seeming laxity to prosecute fake drug and food dealers in the country. He wondered why...
S. Africa’s Neighbours Ban Poultry Imports Over Bird Flu
Four of South Africa's neighbours have banned poultry imports from the rainbow nation following a serious outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian influenza. Namibia on Tuesday became the...
North Dayi MP To Organise Outreach On Sickle Cell
Ms Joycelyn Tetteh, Member of Parliament (MP) for North Dayi, is gearing up for an outreach programme to educate her constituents on the sickle cell disease. “Don’t marry just because you are in...
FDA Must Do All It Can To Keep Us Safe!
IN our editorial comment on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 we commended the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) for their proactiveness, which led to the arrest of two women suspected to be involved in artificial...
WFP Chief Urges EU To Step Up Funds For Africa Famine
The UN food agency's director urged the European Union on Monday to help raise the $1 billion needed over the next few months to save hundreds of thousands of children from starving to death in Yemen...
Nursing Training School Students Threaten Demo
The students of the Tanoso Community Health and Nursing Training School (CHNTS) near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have threatened to embark on a demonstration against the school’s authorities...
USAID, Partners Refurbish Sanitary Facilities In W/R
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Coco-Cola Company under its Water and Development Alliance, (WADA) programme, have provided sanitary facilities to be used by...
We Found No ‘plastic Rice’ In Ghana
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), has rubbished claims that there is a so-called plastic rice on the Ghanaian market as alleged through videos circulating on social media and elsewhere. Similar...
Gender Ministry Registers 250,000 Children Under NHIS
The Ministry of Gender and Social Protection has registered 250,000 children in the country to benefit from the National Health Insurance Scheme. Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba, the sector Minister, who...
How the FDA Solved Puzzling Adulterated Rice Mystery
Social media has been awash with various reports accompanied with images, indicating the circulation of plastic rice on Ghanaian markets. However, The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has rubbished...
Traditional Birth Spacing Method Gains Grounds
Traditional method of birth spacing through the use of the menstrual cycle is gaining grounds in rural areas in parts of Upper East Region of Ghana and reducing the patronage of modern family...
Youth In Bukom Sensitised On Dangers of Unsafe Abortion
Over 100 youth living in Israel, a fishing community located within Bukom, a suburb of Accra, have been vigorously sensitized on the dangers of illegal abortion under a project dubbed ‘Abortion...
FDA Introduces Online Reporting System
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has introduced an online reporting system called Safety Watch System (SWS), to enable health workers to report on safety issues related to drugs, vaccines and other...
Tens of Thousands Stranded By Sri Lanka Doctors’ Strike
Tens of thousands of patients have been left in the lurch by a doctor-led strike at Sri Lanka's state-run hospitals, a consumer rights group said on Saturday. The Government Medical Officers...