World Aids Day
Today is world HIV day. When this epidemic started, there were arguments about whether it originated from Africa or not. Regardless of its origins, HIV has become mainly an African disease. According...
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UN Chief Apologises For First Time Over Outbreak
Haiti was cholera-free until it was brought to the country by Nepalese peacekeepers in 2010 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has for the first time apologised to the people of Haiti for the...
JICA Signs MoU With Two Health Bodies
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Tuesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for the continuous...
Lack of Sex Education Putting Lives At Risk In China
Lack of sex education putting lives at risk in China Volunteers hand out condoms in a subway station in Wuhan on World AIDS Day. When Xiao Niao was in high school, her teacher gathered all the girls...
Mahama Inaugurates Phase 1 of G/Accra Regional Hospital [Photos]
President John Dramani Mahama has inaugurated the first phase of the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, formerly the Ridge Hospital, although the facility will start receiving patients from January...
Medical Students To Be Trained In Communication
Dr Ebenezer Badoe, a Neuro Paediatrician at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, says medical students will have communication training as part of their curriculum. “Those already in practice will also...
‘Person Living With HIV/AIDS Can Live Healthy Lives And Attain Viral Load Suppression’
Every 1st December, across the globe we celebrate World AIDS Day (WAD ) to continue reinforcing awareness on HIV/AIDS as well as remember souls lost to this worldwide menace, just like many other...
Winning The Malaria War Without Vaccines
For over 10 years now Eritrea, a small country in East Africa, has been winning the Malaria War without vaccines, though much work remains to be done. Since 2005 I have been monitoring the reduction...
Sleep Deprivation ‘costs UK £40bn A Year’
those sleeping less than six hours a night 13% more likely to die than those sleeping between seven Sleep-deprived workers are costing the UK economy £40bn a year and face a higher risk of death,...
Boamah Ignorant of State of NHIS
Dr Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communications, lacks knowledge of the current situation the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) finds itself in, hence his assertion that the scheme has not...
NORDESO Implements 5-Year Advocacy Project In Northern Region
The Northern Development Society (NORDESO), has begun a five-year advocacy project dubbed: “Voice for Change (V4C)” in the Yendi Municipality and Mion District in the Northern Region. The...
Consolidate Efforts To #endAIDS By 2030
(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. Even as...
Uganda Orders Closure of Schools Backed By Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg
Ugandan authorities have ordered the closure of a chain of “for-profit international schools” backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg over concerns of poor...
Allocation of Petroleum Revenue To NHIS Laudable – NHIS Boss
The Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has commended President John Mahama for the decision to allocate a portion of the oil revenue to the Scheme, describing it as...
Our Sanitation Management Needs Holistic Approach
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has reportedly hired workers to go round the newly-inaugurated Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange to pick up empty water sachets and other waste materials that...
9,579 Tested HIV Positive In Lagos
No fewer than 9, 579 people were tested positive to HIV of the 616, 318 that attended the HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) awareness programme from January to June, 2016. Dr Oluseyi Temowo, the...
Netherlands Culls 190,000 Ducks
About 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as the authorities try to prevent the spread of bird flu across northern European countries. The slaughter involved six farms, following the...
The Stinky Catastrophe
I’m sure all of us would agree that stinking isn’t appealing! We buy various kinds of lotions, perfumes, deodorants, etc. so that we can smell good because we’re all aware of the fact that...
I Will End Open Defecation By 2021 – Mahama
President John Mahama has said his government is committed to ending the practice of open defecation by 2021. To this end, the President has outlined the investment made in the provision of proper...
I’ll End Open Defecation By 2021
President John Mahama has said his government is committed to ending the practice of open defecation by 2021. To this end, the President has outlined the investment made in the provision of proper...