Every year on 5 May the world celebrates World Hand Hygiene Day. This year, as we battle the COVID-19 pandemic, the life-saving importance of clean hands has never been more prominent.
WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, says we can protect ourselves and our families by frequently washing...
Since COVID-19 broke out in December 2019, it has continued to spread across the globe unabated, with countries at different phases along the curve
Public health emergencies worldwide, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastation impacts, affect women and men differently, but take a disproportionate toll on women.
Even more...
Director General of the Ghana Health Service Dr. Patrick Kumah Aboagye, has urged all COVID-19 positive patients and potential patients to avail themselves for containment and treatment, as being positive is not equivalent to a death sentence as people perceive.
“What we want to say is that being COVID-19 positive...
The Head of Virology at Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Prof. William Ampofo, has said a number of laboratories are being established across the country to enhance the country’s testing capacity, as the infectious disease continues to spread.
In addition to Noguchi and the Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research...
When it comes to medical diagnostics devices, Africa is seen mainly as a consumer not a producer. But young African Scientists like Dr. Laud Anthony Basing, the Medical Laboratory Scientist behind the COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Test kits manufactured in Ghana, are determined to change that narrative as the continent,...
Last week I commenced a series entitled “without decisive action Ghana will be sleepwalking into a world that widens existing inequalities and uncertainties - which was addressing amongst other things the ten recommendations put forward by the ILO’s Global Commission on the Future of Work. According to the report,...
The total confirmed coronavirus cases have now reached 2,169 along with 229 recoveries with 18 recorded deaths, as at Saturday, May 2, Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced.
The latest development still puts the Greater Accra Region with the highest number of confirmed cases, of 1,852, followed by Ashanti Region...
Since South Africa went into lockdown four weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus, hairdresser Nasreen Pillay has had no income. Without a job contract, she cannot apply for government aid either.
“If my mother and father-in-law did not help me, I would be going hungry,” Pillay, a...
The world’s economy is predicted to suffer a significant decline because of COVID-19. Some hard-hit economies will experience a negative growth rate. We are told Ghana’s growth in GDP, which was projected at 6.8 percent, could fall to 1.5 percent. One may ask if we should be concerned with...
The Ghana Employers’ Association (GEA) has called on government to expedite work on the complete Economic Response Strategy to help industry adjust their operations and stay in business amidst COVID-19 economic challenges.
This was entailed in the Press Statement from the Association to to mark this year’s Worker’s Day celebration.
The...