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Sleep Under Treated Nets – Rebecca Akufo-Addo to Mothers
First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has entreated all mothers to sleep under treated mosquito nets in order to prevent them from malaria.
According to her, it is a mother’s responsibility to ensure the family is safe and healthy.
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HIV Prevalence Among Pregnant Women Declines
The prevalence of HIV among pregnant women, attending antenatal clinic in the country is on a downward trend.
A linear trend analysis has confirmed a declining epidemic since year 2000, placing the median prevalence for 2017 at 2.1 per…
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WHO Plans for Ebola ‘Worst Case Scenario’
The World Health Organization is planning to send Ebola vaccines to the town of Bikoro in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo, which is grappling with an outbreak of the deadly virus, news agency Reuters reports, quoting a top…
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Samira Fights Maternal Mortality
The Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) on Thursday, 10 May 2018, launched the SEHP Safe Delivery Project to support efforts to reduce maternal and neo-natal mortality in Ghana. Speaking at the ceremony in the Northern…
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Cholera Looms―GHS Boss Warns
The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has expressed fear of a far more devastating cholera outbreak likely to happen this year.
In a statement issued, Yesterday, the onset of the rainy season…
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Gov’t to Deploy Midwives to Every CHPS Compound
The Ministry of Health through the Ghana Health Services is taking steps to deploy midwives to all Community-based Health Planning Services (CHPS) compounds across the country as part of efforts to address maternal and neonatal mortality.…
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Ebola Raises Its ‘Ugly’ Head Again
One of the worst outbreak in history ―Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has surfaced again as the Democratic Republic of the Congo two days ago confirmed the presence of the disease in Bikoro in Equateur Province.
It is in the light of this that…
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MOH Institutes Measures to Prevent Ebola
The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Thursday disclosed that measures have been instituted to help prevent the transmission of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), into the country.
This was as a result of the…
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Use IGFs Efficiently – Health Minister to Hospitals
Minister for Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has urged hospital administrators to work diligently at improving their Internally Generated Funds (IGFs) to meet demands for expansion, health workers benefits and logistics in their various…
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Skin Smells Attract Mosquitoes to Children – Study
Children infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium were found to produce distinctive skin smells making them more attractive to malaria mosquitoes than uninfected children, according to new research.
Previous studies have indicated…
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