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Open Defaecation Gets Out of Hand Around University of Health & Allied Sciences; Lecturers, Chiefs Fingered

Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered A resident...

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Minister Targets Poverty Reduction With Clean-Up Exercise In Zongos

Saturday, April 28 will witness the launch of the Clean Zongo Project, an initiative of the Ministry of Inner City and...

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[Audio] Survival By Handwashing, the Story of 45-Year Old Awo

Survival by handwashing, the story of 45-year old Awo 45 year old Awo Lamptey has commercialized the art of...

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Malaria Prevention Integral To Ghana Beyond Aid Agenda – First Lady

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has stated that taking the necessary steps, to vigorously fight malaria will...

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Polytanks Ghana Supports Safe Water Network

Polytanks Ghana, one of the leading producers of plastic storage tanks in Ghana, has presented an undisclosed amount to...

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Gov’t Indebtedness To Waste Managers Hits GHC800 Million

Government says it owes waste collectors and operators of landfill sites across the country about 800 million cedis, a...

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National Health Insurance Authority Proposes Special Tax On Sugary, Alcoholic Beverages

The National Health Insurance Authority is proposing a special tax on sugar-sweetened and alcoholic beverages as...

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Jospong Will Support Govt’s Sanitation Drive – Agyepong

The Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies, Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong, has pledged his support and...

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AMA Clears Filth At London Market In Accra

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) on Saturday cleared filth at the London Market in Accra. Mr Sam Ayeh-Datey, the...

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Sale of Forms Into Health Institutions Fake

The Ministry of Health has denied putting out any forms for sale for persons interested in enrolling in any of the...

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Assemblyman, 4 Others Fined For Open Defecation

The Komenda Edina Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipal Assembly in the Central Region has fined five persons, including an...

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LIXIL Group To Improve Access To Sanitation For 100 Million People By 2020

LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with...

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Akufo-Addo To Pursue ‘Toilet For All’ In 2018

Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in...

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Open Defecation Claims 19,000 Lives In Ghana Annually

A World Bank report has revealed that 19,000 lives are lost in Ghana annually through the effects of open defecation...

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Landlords Given 3 Months To Build Toilets

Landlords owning houses without conveniences in the Upper East Region of Ghana has been given 3 months -from now to...

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Involve Our Neighbouring Countries In Armyworm Fight

The Member of Parliament for Zabzugu Constituency in the Northern Region has advised the government to start engaging...

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UNICEF Advocates For Information Sharing

UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH...

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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...

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‘Recognise Efforts of RICCS, DICCS’

Country Director of WaterAid Ghana, Mr. Mohammed Abdul-Nashiru, has expressed the urgent need to recognise efforts and...