Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood safety information from the point of donor registration to donation collection, through to laboratory testing, component processing and labelling, storage, and distribution to … Read more
Ghana has become the second country in Africa, after Lesotho to launch a Blood Safety Information System (BSIS). The BSIS is an open source information system designed to manage donor and blood safety information from the point of donor registration to donation collection, through to laboratory testing, component processing and labelling, storage, and distribution to … Read more
A blood safety and information (BSIS) system has been launched for the National Blood Service, Ghana (NBSG), in Accra. The electronic information management system will help track blood donor information from the point of donation, through laboratory testing, processing, storage and distribution to health facilities. The system is being operated with support from the US … Read more
This article has been necessitated by my longtime observation that the Ghanaian media treat health in a restricted, straightjacket manner. The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This will inform even a lay person that health is a multifaceted, … Read more
For Chi Chia-wei the imminent court decision that could make Taiwan the first place in Asia to recognise gay marriage is his greatest shot at justice after decades of tireless campaigning. “It’s been so long, my hair has gone grey!” says 59-year-old Chia, who often appears in public draped in rainbow flags. The celebrated activist, … Read more
The ‘think health, think the MD’ posturing of the Ghana media is a monster This article has been necessitated by my longtime observation that the Ghanaian media treat health in a restricted, straightjacket manner. The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the re-constituted 19-member governing board of the Ghana AIDS Commission, with a charge on the members to use their resourcefulness to mobilise the requisite resources for the prosecution of the commission’s “ambitious” five-year national HIV and AIDS strategic plan. The President observed that financial support from friends of … Read more
The Country Director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the UN representative in Ghana, Girmay Haile is warning the surge in vigilantism in the country could pave way for some unknown external forces to destabilize Ghana’s security. Mr. Haile believes Ghana’s internal security could be jeopardized if the menace is not tackled decisively. … Read more
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), now struggling with internal conflicts, started out as an elite black group. The liberation movement took power in 1994, four years after the lifting of a four-decade ban linked to its fight against the white minority rule of apartheid. – 1912: On January 8, influential blacks found the … Read more
The Upper West Regional Directorate of Health Services has intensified its screening efforts at identifying persons with Tuberculosis, taking on-board screening of miners in Nadowli District and at Out-Patient Departments of health facilities. Gene Xpert and Digital X-ray equipment have also been installed at the Regional Hospital in Wa to help facilitate screening for the … Read more
A top US military commander has said the LRA has been reduced to “irrelevance” after years of joint military operations have killed most of its forces. Its leader, Joseph Kony, is still on the run. US military operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa are “coming to an end,” a top American general … Read more
Today marks one year memorial of the late former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey. The incumbent party will today remember the late gem whose lifetime was of a massive significance to the leading side. To commemorate the late icon, the NPP will hold a ceremony in his honor. The party … Read more
Stakeholders in mental health care are worried about the continuous exemption of mental health care from the National Health Insurance Scheme. This, according to the Director of BasicNeeds Ghana, Peter Yaro, impedes on the treatment of mentally challenged persons in Ghana. An estimated 2.4 million Ghanaians suffer from mental illness. The World Health Organization (WHO) … Read more
World Kidney Day falls on 9th March 2017, and as the years go by we are faced with an alarming increase in chronic kidney disease. Across the globe, 10 percent of the population is affected by preventable yet deadly kidney diseases. Chronic Kidney Disease was ranked 18th in the list of causes of total number … Read more
Dr. Angela El-Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has stated that the Commission did not have the financial capacity to conduct experiment on drugs that would permanently cure HIV and AIDS. She noted that though various quarters within the traditional and religious circles had proclaimed one cure or the other for the epidemic, … Read more
All questions regarding the alleged missing 208 state vehicles should be directed at the “appointing authority”, former Attorney General Nii Ayikoi Otoo, who chaired the Executive Assets sub-committee of the Transition Team that oversaw the handing over of logistics, including cars at the presidency. Mr Ayikoi Otoo’s comment follows remarks by former Deputy Minister of … Read more
The UNAIDS has confred the Premier HIV Ambassador for Ghana, for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission and dolescent girls on the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo. As First Lady, she also becomes the President of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS (OAFLA), a position which Ghana is holding till June 2017, … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday said government was determined in to support local pharmaceutical companies to manufacture anti-retroviral drugs for persons living with HIV and AIDS. He said the development of the country’s pharmaceutical industry, the production of drugs, particularly anti-retrovirals, was a key commitment of his government, and a part of a … Read more
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings, has explained why he once requested to be given some additional lands, after the state had already allocated a plot to him for the purposes of the establishment of the Rawlings Foundation. According to a statement signed by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa, Communications Director at the Office of … Read more
The office of former President Jerry John Rawlings, has explained why he once requested to be given some additional lands, after the state had already allocated a plot to him for the purposes of the establishment of the Rawlings Foundation. According to a statement signed by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa, Communications Director at the Office of the … Read more