EDUCATION - Studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi; Bachelor's degree in economics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1961; undertook graduate studies in economics...
Jacob Otanka "Jake" Obetsebi-Lamptey is a Ghanaian politician and a former television and radio producer. Born in Accra, Ghana, the second son of Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey (a prominent lawyer and...
Be careful at your next barbecue: The combination of heavy animal protein intake, particularly red and processed meats, and an unhealthy lifestyle has been linked to an increased risk of early death,...
As millions of people around the world continue to die of AIDS, scientists from the United States are preparing to run a large-scale clinical trial of a new HIV vaccine in South Africa, according to...
Ghana’s life expectancy is now 62.4 according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report. The report also revealed that Ghana is 25th in West Africa.
The WHO report indicates that life...
A new case of Ebola has been found in Liberia, a country declared free of the disease on Sept. 3, a senior United Nations official said on Friday.
The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived in the...
On 17 October 2014, Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, announced that Ghana is ready to stage the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) competition slated for January and February 2015.
The...
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how to deal with the devastating infections of the Ebola virus.
The two countries...
Practically everyone at the march had a story about someone who refused to shake hands or moved to a different bus seat when they realized they were near a Liberian.
"Once they hear our accent,...
A day after the World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola, the doctor who treated the country's first case of the deadly virus and later died from the disease herself is being hailed...
(Africa,Reuters) - Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to produce millions of doses for use next year.
U.S. firm Johnson & Johnson said...
The World Health Organization declared Nigeria Ebola free on Monday after a 42 day period with no new cases, in a success story with lessons for countries still struggling to contain the deadly...
People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and Eurostar terminals.
Downing Street said passengers would be asked questions and...
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday, out of about 4,000 patients thought to have been infected in the three countries...
Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further as cases are concealed, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres...
Another American doctor who works as a Missionary in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. He is the third American health care worker to contract the virus. The first two...
The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus.
Press sources have been asked not to be mentioned for security reasons confirmed to APA on...
Senegal's health minister has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected by the outbreak.
Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man...
President John Dramani Mahama has lamented the ostracism and neglect countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus have been subjected to.
He said the increasing travel bans and border closures and...
The World Health Organization says the current deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people before...
