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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...

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MOH Receives Digital Radiology X-Ray Equipment For TB Diagnoses

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday, received the first batch of ultra-modern digital radiology X-Ray equipment from...

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Tuberculosis Outbreak Looms As Bacteria Grow Drug-Resistant

Ghana faces imminent Tuberculosis outbreak as the country is recording increasing numbers of emerging transmission of...

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HIV Prevalence High Among Females

Dr Patrick Bampoh, Northern Regional Coordinator of HIV and AIDS, has said the HIV prevalence is high among females in...

Headlines

Hepatitis C Nearly Triples In US In 5 Years

The number of hepatitis C infections have nearly tripled in the United States in the last five years, particularly...

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US Researchers Develop Rapid Blood Test For TB

US researchers on Monday said they have developed a fast blood test for tuberculosis that could speed diagnosis and...

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Modern Hospital For Infectious Disease To Be Sited In Nsawam

Government is working with the Global Fund to remodel a facility for a modern infectious disease hospital at Nsawam to...

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Cerebrospinal Meningitis Kills Two Senior High School Students

Eleven others who have also been infected with CSM are in hospital for treatment At least two Senior High School...

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Tuberculosis Infection On the Decline In Ashanti

Statistics from the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate show that tuberculosis (TB) infection is on the decline in the...

International

British Scientists In World-First TB Breakthrough

British scientists have made a world-first breakthrough in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Researchers in Oxford and...

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Akufo-Addo Picks Ambassadors

Sources say some of the ambassadors-designate were ushered into the Flagstaff House on Thursday President Akufo-Addo...

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Tuberculosis On the Upsurge; 14,632 Cases In 2016 Alone

Ghana’s Tuberculosis (TB) burden is on the upsurge as 14,632 cases were reported in 2016 as against 9,714 in 2015....

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Cases of Maternal Mortality Increase In Western Region

The maternal mortality rate in the Western Region increased from 75 per cent in 2015 to 92 per cent in 2016, due mainly...

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Prophet Badu Kobi’s Prophecy About Black Stars Comes To Pass

The 39th prophecy by Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi on the 31st Night of last December 2016 has come to pass as prophesied....

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Kintampo Health College Gets New Director

Professor Ahmed Adu-Oppong, the former Head of Department of Community Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University...

Opinion

The Danger of Abusing Tramadol For Pain Management

A GNA feature by Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA Accra, Jan. 9, GNA - Tramadol hydrochloride is one of the group of...

International

Africa’s Top Hashtags of 2016

Whether mourning the death of a musical giant, teasing presidents or launching protest movements, Africans took to...

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Will Ghanaians Vote President Mahama Or Nana Akufo-Addo?

By Kofi Ata Ghana goes to the polls on Wednesday December 7, 2016 to elect president and parliamentarians for the next...

Opinion

December 7, Will It Be President Mahama Or Nana Akufo-Addo?

By Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK December 4, 2016 Ghana goes to the polls on Wednesday December 7, 2016 to elect president...