The Ayawaso West Municipal Health Directorate has partnered Mastercard Foundation and Stratcomm Africa to take COVID-19 vaccination exercises to communities in the municipality, as turnout at health centres for the vaccine is low.
The exercise witnessed scores of residents from the La Bawaleshie community turn up at the Okponglo Park...
Only antibody therapy authorised in US for pre-exposure prophylaxis
Pivotal phase III data showed robust efficacy and long-term protection with one dose in high-risk population
AstraZeneca's Evusheld (tixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab), a long-acting antibody (LAAB) combination, has received emergency use authorisation (EUA) in the US for the pre-exposure...
The Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC jointly announced that 1.2 million vaccines purchased under the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative have landed in Ghana and are set for distribution.
The shipment is part of a first tranche of vaccines to be delivered under the initiative. The Through Saving Lives and...
develoPPP health, a Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) health programme, has launched two projects to help manage the pandemic within organisations and communities at large.
One of the projects, dubbed ‘Pandemic Management in Catchment Communities in Times of COVID-19 & Beyond’, is targetted at the extractive communities of Western...
The list of countries reporting cases of Omicron is still increasing. CNN reported last week that Poland and Niger were among four new additions to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "very high" risk travel category on Tuesday. Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific and Trinidad...
U.S. Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan has handed over one million Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses to Ghana.
Since September, the United States has donated 5.3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Ghanaian people. Ambassador Sullivan joined representatives of UNICEF, the Government of Denmark, and the Ministry of Health at the...
World Bank-UNESCO-UNICEF report lays out the magnitude of the education crisis
This generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, according to a new report published today by...
Lanbell Laboratory and Diagnostic Centre has officially opened its office in Accra to offer COVID-19 testing through the use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) to help in the fight against the pandemic.
The Centre, which is poised to serve clients, is set to deliver the quickest PCR detection of SARS-COV-2...
Pest and Vector Control Association of Ghana (PEVAG) has taken its free disinfection programme to the Keta Municipal Health Hospital in the Volta Region.
In addition, the Association also fumigated the hospital against bed bugs, following an urgent appeal from the hospital authorities to PEVAG.
The second phase of PEVAG’s nationwide...
The Mastercard Foundation, in partnership with Strategic Communication Africa (Stratcomm), has called for immediate reinforcement of the COVID-19 protocols and safety measures to prevent the occurrence of another spike.
According to these institutions, it is important for the state to take a cue from the fourth and fifth waves of...
