The Élevé Health Watch and Healthy Futures Ghana Initiative has been officially launched in Accra in a direct response to the alarming epidemiological shift in Ghana’s mortality profile caused by Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
A new HIV prevention drug will be made available at a lower cost in over 100 low-income countries within two years — a move expected to give millions access to the breakthrough treatment and potentially bring the world closer to ending the HIV/Aids epidemic.
Ghana will, from October 7 to 11, begin a nationwide vaccination campaign against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) for girls aged nine to 14 years.
Africa’s health agency has called for urgent action on sickle cell disease, warning that most of the 300,000 babies born with the condition each year on the continent die before their fifth birthday, despite cheap and effective treatments.