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FDB recalls Counterfeit and substandard anti-malarial medicines
The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) has directed the recall of substandard anti-malarial medicines from circulation by the respective manufacturers and importers and to submit a recall report within 10 days.
Ghana Medical Association calls for improvement in Maternal Health Care
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) on Monday called on the Government and stakeholders to commit and rededicate themselves to the goal of improving maternal health.
Minister says stigmatization is bane to HIV and AIDS reduction
Mr Sam Nasamu Asabigi, the Deputy Northern Regional Minister, on Monday said the HIV and AIDS stigma and discrimination remained a crucial challenge that undermined the control of the virus nationally and globally.
African health experts to discuss unsafe abortion
More than 250 health care providers, advocates, Parliamentarians, women's groups, community members and allied agencies from across Africa are meeting in Accra, to share best practices and lessons and initiate an agenda for action.
Counterfeit drugs endanger lives in West Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) study on the content and dissolution of anti-malarial and anti-tuberculosis drugs in West Africa, revealed an alarming rate of failure.
Pneumonia leads the cause of under-five morbidity and mortality in Ghana
Pneumonia has been rated as the leading cause of under-five morbidity and mortality in Ghana, with an upsetting annual death toll record of 16,200 children, representing 20 per cent deaths per year.
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