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World Health Organization: Nigeria and Senegal – Model Test Cases for Effective Ebola Control
(Geneva,GNA) – The World Health Organisations (WHO) says Senegal and Nigeria offers a test case for the world on how...
Read moreDrugmakers to Join Forces to Make Millions of Ebola Vaccine Doses
(Africa,Reuters) - Leading drugmakers plan to work together to speed up the development of an Ebola vaccine and hope to...
Read moreMedia Foundation for West Africa Board calls for intensified Ebola response
(Accra,GNA) – The Board of Directors of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has expressed concern about the Ebola...
Read moreThe Fight Against Ebola – VICE News
The international news organization VICE News visited Liberia to provide a front line perspective of the uphill battle Liberia is...
Read moreAre Ghanaians Nomophobic?
Are you in the category of individuals who pick up their phones as the first thing they check when they...
Read moreSynthetic Molecule Based Anti-Ebola Drug Developed By University of Utah
There's more hope that an Ebola-fighting drug is on its way. Biochemists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake...
Read moreGates Foundation Pledges $50m to fight Ebola
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50m on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's Ebola epidemic,...
Read moreSave Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme From Collapse
(Accra,GNA) – The Universal Access to Health Care Campaign (UAHC) has urged government to consider mobilising sufficient resources to help...
Read moreHere’s How The Number of People Who Have Been Killed By The Ebola Virus – 2000
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday,...
Read moreSouth Sudan: MSF Reduces Cholera Activities after Treating 3,300 Cases
(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in recent weeks...
Read moreCentral Region Records 20 Cholera Deaths
(Cape Coast, GNA) - Twenty people have died since cholera broke out in the Central Region in July, Dr. Kwaku...
Read moreHospital Appeals for Support to Handle Cholera Cases
(Cape Coast, GNA) - The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) has appealed to the Central Regional Coordinating Council (CRCC) to...
Read moreHealth Warning Against the Use of Ciprofloxacin as a Vaccine Against Cholera
(Ho, GNA) - Dr Atsu Seake-Kwawu, Ho Municipal Director of Health Services on Wednesday warned the public against taking Ciprofloxacin...
Read moreAfrica Has Lowest Tobacco Use in Pregnant Women
A study published in the September edition of the Lancet Global Health Journal shows that the Africa Region, has the...
Read moreAfrica Development Bank Supports Ebola Countries With $60M
The Deputy Health Minister Dr Victor Bampoe says the Africa Development Bank has earmarked $60m for countries affected by the...
Read moreDoctor Dies of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria's patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died...
Read moreWhen Ignorance Cannot Be Ignored ! Open Defecation
Public officials sometimes make utterances they wish they could take back. There are the select few who put their foot...
Read moreThe Shame of Lavender Hill : Warning Some Graphic Content !
The Shame of Lavender Hill -Accra's Greatest Shame Poor sanitation and the inefficient human waste disposal has always been a...
Read moreNancy Writebol On a Steady Road Map to Recovery
The second American missionary doctor, Nancy Writebol, who was medically evacuated from Liberia on August 4th to Emory University’s Hospital...
Read moreKorle Bu Doctors Demand Quick Construction of Ebola Isolation Centre
Resident doctors at the Medicine Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital are calling on authorities to expedite action on...
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