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 ...
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations visits Ebola Stricken Countries
(Accra, GNA) - In a communique released by the United States Embassy in Ghana, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, ...
A Story of Sacrifice – How Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh Saved Nigeria from Ebola Catastrophe and Died Doing It.
A day after the World Health Organization declared Nigeria free of Ebola, the doctor who treated the country's first case ...
Drugmakers 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 ...
President Mahama urges Ghanaian soldiers to join in efforts to fight Ebola
President John Mahama has urged Ghanaian soldiers to complement efforts of their counterparts in the West African sub-region in helping ...
Synthetic 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 ...
More Ebola Outbreaks outside Africa – Nurse Infected in Spain
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has confirmed that a nurse who treated two victims of Ebola in Madrid has tested ...
The World Bank Increases Ebola Crisis Management Fund to $400 million
The World Bank has agreed a dramatic increase in financing to address the Ebola crisis upping the initial $230 million ...
More Cholera Deaths – Kills 12 in Cape Coast
Twelve persons including a medical doctor and three student nurses have died from cholera in Cape Coast, the Central Regional ...
President John Mahama Visits West Africa Hardest Hit Ebola Countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the leadership ...
President Mahama Attends Memorial Service of Ebola Victim Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
A requiem mass was held at the Christ the King Church on Friday, September 12, 2014 for Dr Ameyo Stella ...
Doctors Abandon Achimota Hospital over suspected Ebola Patient
Health workers at the Achimota Hospital in Accra have reportedly abandoned the facility over a suspected Ebola case Sunday. A ...
Gates 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, ...
Here’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, ...
Sierra Leone Fights Ebola With Nationwide Lockdown, Experts Warn It Won’t Work
Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease spreading further ...
South 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 ...
Central Region Records 20 Cholera Deaths
(Cape Coast, GNA) - Twenty people have died since cholera broke out in the Central Region in July, Dr. Kwaku ...
Hospital 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 ...
Health 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 ...
The Politics and Economics of the Ebola Outbreak
Foreign policy strategies in many western nations is built on mutual benefit. “You scratch my back, I scratch your back” ...