Health

Nairobi, 10 October– Extremely poor levels of hygiene in Sudan, coupled with a lack of health care facilities, medicines and trained personnel, are contributing to widespread preventable blindness. All the leading causes of preventable blindness, […]

Abidjan, 9 October– Eight cases of a wild polio virus type were reported in Togo, Burkina Faso and Ghana this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The cases included six in Ghana […]

London, 8 October– Meeting adolescents’ reproductive health needs is an urgent priority in the global fight against poverty and HIV/AIDS, emphasizes The State of World Population 2003 report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. […]

Accra, 3 October– Doctors, nurses and other health professionals are leaving Ghana in droves to seek greener pastures in countries that pay good money for their services. The State of the Ghanaian Economy Report for […]

Accra, 3 October– It is 11.30 am at La Polyclinic, situated at La, a suburb of the Ghanaian capital, Accra. Emmanuel Addo, a 63-year old unemployed man is at the tail end of a queue […]

Accra, 3 October– Ghanaian doctors warn that the health services will break down unless the government takes urgent action to pay health professionals a decent wage and curb the activities of overseas recruitment agencies enticing […]

Nairobi, 3 October– Despite concerted efforts by relief agencies, a recurring outbreak of cholera continues to affect Kasai Oriental Province and the city of Mbuji-Mayi, in particular, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), […]

Bulawayo, 2 October– Officials announced this week that malaria had claimed the lives of 786 people between January and the end of September, and warned that critical anti-malaria outreach programmes may not be sufficiently funded. […]