A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “We are calling for the intensification of routine immunization services in all areas, and for mass measles vaccination campaigns in […]

The USAID West Africa Fertilizer Programme is to provide training on the use of mobile soil test kits as part of efforts to promote agricultural enhancing technologies to boost productivity and ensure better returns on farmer investments. The two-day regional workshop on the theme: “Promoting Mobile Soil Test Kits for Rapid Decision-Making” would be attended […]

The World Health Organisation has commended Ghana for the tremendous progress made in fighting Tuberculosis despite the challenges of detecting cases. Ghana has increased its cure rate from 22 per cent in 1996 to the recommended WHO level of 85 per cent in 2010. Patient defaulter rate has also decreased from 11 per cent in […]

Mr. Gene A. Crete, the United States (US)Ambassador in Ghana, has urged the Media to help in the fight against child labour. Mr. Crete was addressing the media practitioners after a day’s working visit to Kojokrom, a farming community in the Asunafo North District of the Brong-Ahafo Region. He was accompanied by Mr. Christopher Thornley, […]

Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ghana, a non-profit organization, is to host its 2015 Africa and Middle East Conference in Accra to collaborate and exchange ideas on how to impact on their communities. The four-day event which would take place from the 6th to the 9th of May at the Accra International Conference Centre will be […]

A joint summit would be held on April 7, between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), to discuss security and terrorists issues facing the two sub-regions. The high-level summit, which would take place in a Central African nation, would also deliberate on a framework […]

Mr. James A. Bever, the Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) has said agribusiness could transform Ghana’s fortune in the future. He said the USAID’s Feed the Future project, one of its interventions to spur sustainable and broadly shared economic growth, had shown tremendous success, especially in the northern regions […]

As World Tuberculosis Day approaches on March 24, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for “global solidarity and action” to support a new 20-year strategy aimed at ending the global tuberculosis epidemic. A statement issued by the WHO and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday said in recent years there had been […]

The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) has tasked States to urgently adopt special measures to increase women’s full participation in political institutions and decision-making bodies by 2030, expiry date for gender inequality. Measures UN Women are proposing includes the adoption of quotas, constitutional and legal reforms which implement explicit provisions to […]

Former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, has warned against growing food insecurity in Africa and urged the leaders and stakeholders to demonstrate strong commitment to deal with the problem. He noted that Africa remained the only continent where food security continued to be a challenge despite the advancement in agricultural production technology. […]