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Queen Mathilde of Belgium In Ghana To Champion SDGs
Queen Mathilde of Belgium arrived in Ghana on Wednesday to begin a three-day state visit. The Belgian Royal, who is a...
Drama: Mallam Claims AIDS Is Caused By Dog Bites
A 37 year old herbalist, Mallam Abdul Razak Mohamed, resident at Suhum in the Eastern Region, claims to have found cure...
What Each Bereaved Family Received From Govt
KUMACA Deaths – Families of deceased students of the Kumasi Academy Senior High School have received a sum of GHC...
Govt To Pay For Funeral of KUMACA Swine Flu Victims
Government says it would bear the funeral expenses of four students of Kumasi Academy Senior High School (KUMACA) who...
Malaria Prevalence Reduces Marginally
Malaria prevalence among children under age five has decreased from 27 per cent to 21 per cent. This is according to...
Prof Dodoo Appointed Head of Ghana Standards Authority
A clinical pharmacologist and pharmacist, with extensive experience in drug safety, vaccine safety, harmonisation...
Lone Clinic In Syria’s Rebel North Tackles War’s Mental Toll
At an austere mental health clinic in northern Syria, male patients with shaved heads squat barefoot in a courtyard,...
Gov’t Pays $10m For Polio, Measles Vaccines
The Government of Ghana has transferred about $10 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the...
Polio, Measles Vaccine Shortage Hit Ghana
Nursing mothers in Ghana would have to wait until next week before having their babies vaccinated against Polio and...
Transport of Pigs To Be Banned After Swine Flu Outbreak
The Veterinary Services Department intends to ban the transfer of pigs following reports of an outbreak of Swine flu in...
New WHO Director From Ethiopia Begins Work
The new director general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom, took over managing the UN health agency on...
Africa Gets Generic Version of Most Effective HIV Drug
The generic version of the most advanced drug against HIV has been introduced in Kenya, a first in Africa where more...
Health Ministry Alerted Over ‘strange’ Killer Disease From Liberia
The Ministry of Health has been advised to increase its surveillance at all levels over a strange disease that has...
Health Ministry Alerted Over ‘strange’ Killer Disease From Liberia
The Ministry of Health has been advised to increase its surveillance at all levels over a strange disease that has...
Kofi Annan Calls For Fight Against Snakebites
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a global fight against snakebites and the need to reduce impact...
NGO Celebrates Sickle Cell Day
About 15,000 babies are born annually with sickle cell disease in the country. Out of the number, 50 to 80 per cent die...
Suicidologist Campaigns Discrimination Against Suicide
Dr Joseph Osafo, a Clinical Psychologist and Suicidologist, is advocating the de-criminalisation of suicide from the...
‘Let’s Recognise Fathers With National Prostate Cancer Awareness Day’
Men’s Health Foundation Ghana (MHFG), a leading men’s charity in the country, has urged government to recognise...
Suspected Diarrhoea Kills 279 People In Sudan
At least 279 people have died and thousands sickened in Sudan from suspected acute diarrhoea since August, UN agencies...