First Lady Rallies Corporate Ghana To Support Fight Against Malaria
First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on corporate Ghana to support the fight against malaria, a disease that killed ...
Tag: Public health
Court Prosecutes Landlords Without Toilet Facilities
The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, has begun an exercise to prosecute landlords who do not have ...
End Malaria For Good; Invest In Malaria Prevention
According to the 2015 World Malaria Report, there were 214 million cases of malaria recorded globally in that year. The ...
Tackling the Negative Cultural Practices In Upper East Region
Paramount Chief of Katiu, Pe Ayikode Zangbeo Atoge IV, one of the chiefs addressing the durbar Many Anthropologists who study ...
Two Billion People Drinking Contaminated Water
Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning ...
El Nino Can Warn On Cholera Outbreaks In Africa
El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa, providing ...
Do Not Abandon National Sanitation Day
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ledzokuku Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has asked ...
We Need About $2 Billion To Execute Water Projects- Patrick Boamah
A Deputy Minister-designate for Water Resources and Sanitation, Patrick Yaw Boamah says Ghana needs about $2 billion to execute projects ...
Smoking Causes One In 10 Deaths Worldwide, Study Shows
Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, a new study shows, half of them in just four countries - China, ...
Bring Back Our Rights To Water
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a ...
Somalia Faces Major Cholera Outbreak
The United Nations has raised alarm over a major outbreak of cholera in southern Somalia. Aid groups are already scrambling ...
CCFC-Ghana Launches the ‘Promise’ Project
The Christian Children’s Fund of Canada has launched its flagship project to promote safe delivery and reduce maternal and infant ...
Ghanaians Urged To Practice Waste Segregation
Mr Raymond Ategbi Okrofi, the Country Manager of Safi Sana Ghana Ltd, has called on government to come up with ...
Ashaiman Residents Angry Over ‘poisonous’ Landfill Site
Residents of Ashaiman Presby Junction are at risk of an imminent outbreak of diseases over the mismanagement of a landfill ...
Saving Ghana From Filth; Things We Must Do Now [Article]
Over the last two days, my colleagues and I on the Citi Breakfast Show have been raging about the filthy ...
NPC Solicits Commitment, Support of Partners
The National Population Council (NPC) has held a stakeholders’ forum to solicit commitment from its local and international partners to ...
Gov’t To Build 1 Million To Curb Open Defecation
The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an effective measure of addressing ...
Treaty Slows Global Tobacco Use By 2.5%
Tobacco use fell by 2.5 percent worldwide a decade after the first global health treaty went into effect, World Health ...
Africa Makes Progress In Water Delivery
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to improved drinking ...
Government To Build 1 Million Toilet Facilities Across Ghana – Minister
Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of addressing open defecation, ...