ECOWAS Sets Up Rapid Response Team To Help Contain Disease Outbreaks
A four-day ECOWAS health resilience training programme to equip selected individuals from the fifteen West African states has ended in ...
Tag: Tropical diseases
Ghana Makes Gains Since 2000 But Still Lags In Progress Toward The Sustainable Development Goals
- Rates of HIV, malaria, and TB diseases have decreased since 2000; suicide and binge drinking have become greater threats ...
Read Mahama’s Full Speech At UN General Assembly
President John Mahama on Wednesday addressed the United Nation’s 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The president lamented ...
GHS Training on Ebola and Cholera Surveillance Ends
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has held an Ebola and Cholera surveillance and contact tracing training for health workers from ...
World Health Organization: Nigeria and Senegal – Model Test Cases for Effective Ebola Control
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how ...
United States Ambassador to the United Nations visits Ebola Stricken Countries
(Accra, GNA) - In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, ...
An Anti-Ebola March in South West Philadelphia “I’m a West African – Not a Virus.”
Practically everyone at the march had a story about someone who refused to shake hands or moved to a different ...
Drugmakers to Join Forces to Make Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses
(Africa,Reuters) - Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to ...
The Fight Against Ebola – VICE News
The international news organization VICE News visited Liberia to provide a front line perspective of the uphill battle Liberia is ...
Travel Restrictions Imposed: U.S. to Funnel Travelers from Ebola-hit Region Through Five Airports
(Reuters, Africa) - Travelers to the United States from Ebola-stricken Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea must fly into one of ...
President Mahama on Ebola and Investment in Africa
(The Presidency, Accra)President John Mahama has expressed optimism that there will be a positive turnaround in the fight against the ...
President Mahama urges Ghanaian soldiers to join in efforts to fight Ebola
President John Mahama has urged Ghanaian soldiers to complement efforts of their counterparts in the West African sub-region in helping ...
More Ebola Outbreaks outside Africa – Nurse Infected in Spain
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has confirmed that a nurse who treated two victims of Ebola in Madrid has tested ...
President John Mahama Visits West Africa Hardest Hit Ebola Countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the leadership ...
Here’s How The Number of People Who Have Been Killed By The Ebola Virus – 2000
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday, ...
Kofi Annan on Ebola – Travel Ban on Ebola Countries May Hinder Eradication
The Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Busumuru Kofi Annan has warned that if measures are not put in place ...
Sudan Just Banned Reporting on Ebola
The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus. Press sources have been ...
US Universities Screening African Students for Ebola
College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United ...
Ghana’s to Open It’s doors for the dispatch of supplies and personnel to the Ebola-Hit Nations – President Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has lamented the ostracism and neglect countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus have been subjected ...
The World Health Organization Estimates Over 20,000 People Could Get Ebola Before It is Brought Under Control
The World Health Organization says the current deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic ...