SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is continually wreaking havoc on many nations across the globe, and countries in the African sub-region with infrastructure deficits in health are not spared by the pandemic. Ghana is one such nation that has a weak health system, most especially in the area of requisite tools and the needed technologies to carry out routine testing of its populace in the wake of the pandemic.
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More than 1.5 billion people in the world suffer from Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - a cohort of parasitic, viral, and bacterial diseases that cause substantial and a long term illness. Out of this, Africa bears 39 percent of this burden with Ghana being endemic with a considerable number of them - namely Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, Trachoma, Schistosomiasis, Soil transmitted helminthiasis, Buruli ulcer, Yaws... read more
Primary Health Care in rural Ghana is constraint with requisite tools and resources as a result of inequalities that exist in the health sector. Many women die at childbirth or even before reaching the health facilities due to what is known technically as the “three delays”- deciding to seek care, reaching the health care facility and receiving timely care. In Ghana, Maternal mortality is the second leading cause of female... read more
About 7 billion people are affected globally by latent tuberculosis annually. Out of this, Ghana saw 13,978 incident cases of TB representing 32 percent in 2018. And according to the national TB prevalence survey, 2013 estimated TB prevalence of 264 cases per 100,000 population for all forms exist in Ghana. Though TB is a curable and treatable disease, millions of people keep dying of the disease every year since it remains... read more
Hand hygiene - washing of hand with soap and water, rubbing of hand with ethanol and sanitizer is one of the basic but critical procedures in infection prevention and control, IPC. Researchers have established that the hand is one of the fastest mediums that human -to - human infection transmission happens.
As the human hand has continual contact with the environment on daily basis, it is also used... read more
Ethnic groups in Ghana, like many other African countries, have diverse opinions and thoughts about menstruation. While the natural phenomenon is seen as unclean in some clans’ others also believe that menstrual blood can be used to invoke supernatural forces or bad omen. In a typical traditional home in Ghana, women and adolescent girls have to leave their homes to sleep in relative house during their menses. Girls raised... read more
The use of seawater as a home remedy for conjunctivitis—an eye infection that causes redness and itching—has been passed down in Ghana for generations. But now scientists and doctors in the country are warning people against the practice, calling it ineffective and potentially dangerous.
Conjunctivitis is a common complaint in Ghana, especially during the country’s dry season. The infection, which c... read more
