Tuberculosis
Ghana Gets First Vaccine
The world's first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in three countries - Ghana, Kenya and Malawi - starting in...
Malaria: Kenya, Ghana and Malawi Get First Vaccine
The world’s first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in three countries – Ghana, Kenya and Malawi –...
King of Assin Owirenkyi Appointed TB Ambassador
The National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) has appointed Nana Ehunabobrim Prah Agyensaim VI, King and President...
Government To Build Infectious Diseases Hospital At Nsawam
The government is working in collaboration with the Global Fund to build a $1 million modern infectious disease...
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...
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...
Health Directorate Intensifies Tuberculosis Screening
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons...
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...
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...
British Scientists In World-First TB Breakthrough
British scientists have made a world-first breakthrough in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Researchers in Oxford and...
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....
World’s Most Threatening Superbugs Ranked In New List
The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human...
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...
Stroke Leading Cause of Death
About 181 people lost their lives as a result of suffering from Cerebrovascular Accident also known as stroke in 2016...
Stroke Claims 181 Lives In Koforidua Gov’t Hospital
Stroke has become the leading cause of deaths at the hospital claiming 512 lives within 3 years Cerebrovascular...
Africa’s Avoidable Deaths
A couple of weeks ago, Kervin Kofi Moses, a 15-year old student of Ghana's Achimota School, died at the 37 Military...
World Aids Day
Today is world HIV day. When this epidemic started, there were arguments about whether it originated from Africa or...
World’s First Malaria Immunisation To Begin In 2018
The world's first malaria vaccine immunisation campaign is to commence in 2018 and funds for the phase one of the pilot...
Counterfeit Drug Business and How Scores Are Losing Their Lives
Imagine seeing your child suffering from malaria, one of the biggest killers of children across the world. Symptoms...