Only 1 in 4 African health workers fully vaccinated against COVID-19
Only 27% of health workers in Africa have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving the bulk of the workforce on...
Patients diagnosed with breast cancer need to have right information and expectations — Expert
Ifeoma Joy Okoye, Professor of Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka has stressed the need for patients who...
Over 650,000 children got malaria vaccine in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi
Malaria vaccine coverage through childhood immunization programme signals strong community demand for vaccine. Two years on from the launch of...
Africa’s first Lassa fever vaccine clinical trial begins in Ghana
INOVIO (NASDAQ:INO), a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from...
Ghana, Ivory Coast get COVID-19 vaccine ahead of Nigeria
As government officials in Nigeria continue to promise citizens that doses of COVID-19 vaccines will soon become available in the...
Only Ghana has eliminated trachoma in Africa
Even though the number of people at risk of trachoma which is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, has...
How indigenous and faith healers approach mental health in Ghana
by Lily Kpobi, Stellenbosch University and Leslie Swartz, Stellenbosch University The use of non-biomedical methods to treat mental disorders in...
Kofi Annan’s biggest achievement in healthcare
“It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but...
To tackle childbirth-associated deaths, Ghana launches pregnancy school
Ghana's Pregnancy School for pregnant women aims to lower childbirth-associated morbidity and mortality To reduce morbidity and mortality associated with...
In Ghana’s urban areas, almost half of the women are obese
Study presents is the geographical distribution of obesity in Ghana A study commissioned by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has...
