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International

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...

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JICA Signs MoU With Two Health Bodies

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Tuesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the...

International

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...

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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...

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Medical Students To Be Trained In Communication

Dr Ebenezer Badoe, a Neuro Paediatrician at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, says medical students will have...

Opinion

‘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...

Opinion

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,...

International

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...

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Boamah Ignorant of State of NHIS

Dr Edward Omane Boamah, Minister of Communications, lacks knowledge of the current situation the National Health...

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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)”...

Opinion

Consolidate Efforts To #endAIDS By 2030

(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease...

International

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...

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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...

Opinion

Our Sanitation Management Needs Holistic Approach

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has reportedly hired workers to go round the newly-inaugurated Kwame Nkrumah...

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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...

International

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...

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The Stinky Catastrophe

I’m sure all of us would agree that stinking isn’t appealing! We buy various kinds of lotions, perfumes,...

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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...

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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...