The southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho holds a snap election on Saturday, with experts predicting another fractious coalition government, unlikely to tackle its dire levels of HIV-AIDS and...
Dr Patrick Bampoh, Northern Regional Coordinator of HIV and AIDS, has said the HIV prevalence is high among females in the region. He said this year, the prevalence rate for females in the region is...
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood...
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood...
Draped with rainbow flags and waving a huge rainbow banner, celebrated activist Chi Chia-wei stood triumphant in front of cheering crowds after Taiwan's top court ruled in favour of gay marriage....
he CDC received word of 32 outbreaks linked to swimming pools or water playgrounds in the US Beware of contaminated pool water: Outbreaks of a parasitic diarrhea-causing infection linked to pools and...
Almost half of all deaths globally are now recorded with a cause, new data from World Health Organisation (WHO) show. The report highlights improvements countries have made on collecting vital...
The 2016 HIV sentinel survey report has revealed that Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions jointly top the list of prevalence rate. According to the report, the two regions recorded the highest prevalence...
Per the report, the two regions recorded the highest prevalence rate of 2.7 per cent for 2016, which is above the national HIV prevalence of 2.4 per cent. The Northern Region registered the lowest...
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests. Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in...
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests. Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in...
For Chi Chia-wei the imminent court decision that could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to recognise gay marriage is his greatest shot at justice after decades of tireless campaigning. "It's been...
African-Americans have made gains in life expectancy but major disparities remain in the United States, where blacks can expect to live about four years fewer than whites, US researchers said...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the re-constituted 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, with a charge on the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise...
The leader and founder of International God's way church, Bishop Obinim, popularly referred to as Angel Obinim has miraculously cured a young man who was diagnosed of HIV by a doctor at 37 military...
On December 31, 2016, a few hours before the New Year, a 28-year-old man allegedly ended his life. Media reports during that period indicated that the young man in his productive years committed the...
Shock, disgust, disbelief, ungodly, just to list a few, are the reactions that have greeted the story of a 27 year old HIV positive gay man who has confessed to sleeping with over 500 men. Benjy is...
A private legal practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini has urged the police to immediately arrest Benjy, a 27-year-old homosexual with HIV/AIDs who appears to be on a mission to spread the dreadful...
US researchers on Monday said they have developed a fast blood test for tuberculosis that could speed diagnosis and treatment of the serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection. One of the oldest...
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons with Tuberculosis, taking on-board screening of miners in Nadowli District and at...
