April 25 has this year been declared World Malaria Day. Since 2001, April 25 has been observed as Africa Malaria Day, commemorating the signing of the historic Abuja Declaration by 44 African malaria-endemic countries at the African Malaria Summit held
The ongoing BOTUSA Study (TDF2 HIV PREVENTION STUDY) is going well. The trial started last year with the engagement of sexually active volunteers aged between 18 and 29 for a clinical trial to see if a pill already used by
Chief Medical Officer at Rundu State Hospital, Dr Yuri Yangazov, yesterday confirmed the discovery of a human skeleton behind the hospital last Tuesday.
Ghanaians will soon be empowered to take active roles in health care, so as to minimize abuse and misuse of drugs and subsequently reduce the cost of health care.
The Asutifi District of Brong-Ahafo region during the first quarter of this year recorded an alarming rate of malaria cases, from the Out Patient Department (OPD) of the health facilities.
MANAGEMENT of the Kwesimintsim Hospital in Takoradi is crying for help from government, and particularly the Ministry of Health, to save the hospital from operational difficulties they are currently going through.
THOUGH treatment of Tuberculosis (TB), at the various health centers in the country is free, and almost all TB deaths, according to experts, are preventable, the Western Region, last year, recorded a total of 93 deaths, as a result of
Amidst media report that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was suffering from cancer, Presidential Press Secretary Cyrus Wleh Badio says the President was fit and excellent in health.
At least twenty people out of 2,521 cases of HIV/AIDS died of the disease in 2007 in eastern Moxico province, said Tuesday in Luena the provincial director of health, Ernesto Muangala.
Consultant psychiatrist has revealed in Freetown that apart from inmates at the Sierra Leone psychiatric hospital in Kissy some 10% of Sierra Leoneans would require psychiatric care, meaning 400,000 have some form of mental disorder in the country.
The Lagos State government has shut down 184 private hospitals, clinics and laboratories for failing to meet basic standards of hygiene and staff training in a move observers say is a much-needed push to improve the regulation of the state's
The Reproductive and Child Health Programme Unit of the Department of State for Health and Social Welfare on Monday, began a community sensitisation on male involvement in safe motherhood in Boraba and Cha-Kunda in the Upper Fulladu District, Central River
Population Services International (PSI) has launched insecticide treated mosquito nets in their effort to help government prevent the spread of Malaria.
