health
Could A Green Sponge Hold Cancer-Fighting Secrets?
A small green sponge discovered in dark, icy waters of the Pacific off Alaska could be the first effective weapon...
NHIA Capitation Programme Suspended In Ashanti Region
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has suspended the capitation programme in the Ashanti region with effect...
9 Impressive Benefits Of Coffee
Some of the most impressive health benefits of coffee include its ability to improve cognitive health, protect the...
Antibody Helps Keep Man’s HIV At Bay For 10 Months
Antibody helps keep man’s HIV at bay for 10 months An experimental therapy has held back one man’s HIV infection...
South African Child ‘virtually Cured’ of HIV
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in...
Hospitals Overwhelmed As Sri Lanka Dengue Toll Nears 300
Sri Lanka announced Monday it was intensifying its war on dengue fever, with schools to shut across the island to help...
Swaziland Turns Around World’s Highest HIV Infection Rate
Swaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting...
South African Child ‘virtually Cured’ of HIV
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in...
South African Girl, 9, Is Third Child With HIV Remission
A South African girl has become only the third child to beat the AIDS virus into long-term remission -- almost nine...
Women With HIV In Cameroon Still Stigmatised
Blandine, a 28-year-old mother of a baby girl, sits restlessly on a chair in a womens' health centre in Cameroon's...
Lone Clinic In Syria’s Rebel North Tackles War’s Mental Toll
At an austere mental health clinic in northern Syria, male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard,...
Headway On AIDS Threatened By Funding Slowdown
Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump's...
UNICEF Advocates For Information Sharing
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH...
Aids Deaths Halve As More Get Drugs
Aids deaths halve as more get drugs Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The...
Cheap 3D Printed Prosthetics Could Be Game Changer For Nepal
Ram's new hand was manufactured on a 3D printer in Nepal's capital for just $30, an innovation that could be a game...
46 Graduate With Masters In Public Health At Ensign College
Ensign College of Public health, located at Kpong in the Eastern region and affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah Universitg...
AIDS Deaths Halve As More Get Drugs
Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to...
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...
‘Recognise Efforts of RICCS, DICCS’
Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and...