Zimbabwean health minister David Parirenyatwa has reportedly challenged private manufactures in the country to produce condoms so as "to address concerns over the size of condoms imported from...
More than 100,000 men in Mozambique are to be circumcised in a bid to help prevent sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/Aids. The health authorities in the central province of Zambezia say...
The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo has stated that taking the necessary steps, to vigorously fight malaria will have positive implications for human development and business and economic growth...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says the Farmers Deli Vienna product is infested with the dangerous listeriosis and has therfore warned Ghanaians not to patronise it. Listeria monocytogenes is...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) is raising alarm that food products containing deadly listeriosis bacteria may have found their way onto the Ghanaian market. It has therefore intensified its...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has made a clarion call on the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana to extend access to quality pharmaceutical services to the rural communities. The Vice...
Europe has seen a big surge in measles cases in 2017, which the World Health Organization says is a tragedy after a record low of 5,273 cases in 2016. Cases increased four-fold, with more than 20,000...
Cape Town is in the unenviable situation of being the first major city in the modern era to face the threat of running out of drinking water. However, the plight of the drought-hit South African city...
As the world marked World Cancer Day on February 4, 2018, Dr Kwabena Twum-Nuamah, a legislator, has called for the strengthening of early diagnosis at all levels of the health system to reduce the...
Swine Flu Vaccines – Vaccines for the H1N1 flu have arrived the country says the Ministry of Health. The Public Relations Officer officer at the ministry who interacted with Citi News said that a...
Rwanda Bans Shisha – The government of Rwanda has banned smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha. In a public notice dated, 14/12/2017, the government also censored...
Swine Flu – Drugs will be administered to carriers, as well as those quarantined for the endemic swine flu disease. Ghana Education Service (GES) issued a statement after a meeting with the...
KUMACA Deaths – It was a very sad and sorrowful atmosphere at, Krofom, Bremang in the Ashanti region, as one of the victims of the Influenza H1N1 outbreak at the Kumasi Academy Senior High School...
2017 Most Influential African Leaders – Bearing in mind his recent pan-African advocacy, as well as other achievements, Nana Addo’s inclusion in the list of most Influential African leaders may...
About 199 million women live and suffer with diabetes globally, the Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Dr. Ako Boye revealed in Parliament on Tuesday. In a statement to commemorate World Diabetes Day...
Scientists have developed a fast, paper-based test to diagnose tuberculosis that can be read with a smartphone, a technology that is increasingly available in emerging economies. Diagnosing...
Online searches about suicide and suicidal methods soared in the weeks following the release of controversial Netflix drama "13 Reasons Why," about a teenage girl who killed herself, US researchers...
The 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey report has been launched in Accra. The report shows Ghana is making progress in the fight against Malaria. However, a lot more needs to be done to achieve...
Malaria prevalence among children under age five has decreased from 27 per cent to 21 per cent. This is according to the 2016 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey which was conducted by the Ghana...
American music took shape and went global thanks to the country's melting pot of influences. Yet one of the most important sources of the sound often goes forgotten -- American Indians. A new...
