Farmers and women groups engaged in the shea butter and groundnut business in the Upper West Region say they have lost about GH¢5 million in revenue after their produce was downgraded on the...
Youssou Ndour, Senegal's most famous musician, is throwing his weight behind malaria eradication in his homeland to combat an illness that has for too long held back Africa's economic development....
Scientists announced Thursday that they have developed a vaccine to shield endangered chimpanzees and gorillas against Ebola, which has wiped out tens of thousands of the wild apes in three decades....
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Ministry of Health (MoH), has discredited rumours of an Ebola outbreak in the country. An audio clip circulating on various social media platforms, suggested...
The Ghana Health Service has debunked information circulating on social media, suggesting that there is an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Ghana. A statement signed by the Acting Director...
For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to...
The market in Ambam, a colonial town with brick-red cottages and rusty roofs, near the southern borders with Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, is a cluster of booth-sized shops and stalls. Under one...
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of...
The majority of cases in the world’s largest outbreak of Ebola were caused by a tiny handful of patients, research suggests. The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Doctors have raised fresh concerns that drug-resistant forms of malaria may be emerging across Africa. A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in Britain to cure four patients who had...
A highly effective vaccine that guards against the deadly Ebola virus could be available by 2018, says the World Health Organization. Trials conducted in Guinea, one of the West African countries...
play videoA campaign has been launched to treat patients with disease that affects poor communities Transmitted through mosquitoes, more than three million people in Kenya are at risk of a disease...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2016 reveals that children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa have greater access to effective malaria control. The report indicates...
Morocco eliminates trachoma – the leading infectious cause of blindness Transmitted through contact with eye and nose discharge of infected people, particularly young children, it affects...
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus. The employee was working on Monday in a lab with pigs that had been infected...
The lingering shadow of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Hassan sits silently and stares into the distance, he has tired of brushing his hair and an upright comb is tangled into the back of his curls....
A government of the New Patriotic Party, under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, would resolve the nation’s health challenges based on seven principles. The principles hinge on ensuring and...
Over 190,000 persons in the country are blind, according to the 2015 Ghana Blindness and Visual Impairment Study (GBVIS) conducted under the auspices of the Ghana Health Service. The prevalence rate...
The malaria death rate in sub-Saharan Africa has declined by an estimated 57% since 2000, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That's from 12.5 deaths per 10,000...
When I was attending middle school at Kyebi, in the Eastern Region, my task each morning was to go to the River Birem, where I would bathe and bring some water home. I wasn’t the only one –...
