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Monitoring Government’s Health Promises in Ghana
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Ghana: Active COVID-19 cases drop sharply after adopting new WHO guidelines as experts express concern
Ghana has recorded over a 140 percent drop in active COVID-19 cases in the country after adopting new WHO guidelines…
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Ghana: Over 70% spike in COVID-19 cases in Ashanti Region since contact tracers declared strike
COVID-19 contact tracers numbering over 100 in the Ghana’s second most populous region, Ashanti Region, have laid down their tools…
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Ghana requests for Madagascar’s COVID-Organics despite caution from WHO
The Ghanaian government has confirmed that it has reached out to Madagascar to make available to the country its supposed…
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Fixing the Future: What must the world do now and post COVID-19?
There is no gainsaying that the lethal novel coronavirus moniker “COVID-19” has revealed the epistemic limitation of humans concerning plagues.…
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Fact-Check: Claim that smoking tobacco is helpful against coronavirus is ‘unproven’ and misleading
A story circulating on some major news portals in Ghana attributable to the managing editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi…
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Ghana: Gov’t under pressure as confirmed COVID-19 cases surge following lift in lockdown
The Ghanaian government is under an intense pressure from health experts and citizens following a spike in the number of…
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Traffic crashes are leading killer of children in Africa
The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for urgent action to put a brake on road traffic crashes that kill…
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Chinese & Indian firms dumping counterfeit anti-malarials in West Africa causing over 100,000 deaths a year
iWatch Africa assessment of the 2017 Enact Continental Report has revealed that Chinese and Indian firms are the largest producers…
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Safety Alert: 6 people die daily and 2,000 perish annually through road traffic crashes in Ghana
The carnage on our roads has become one of the leading causes of deaths in Ghana. On the average, six…
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Onchocerciasis (River Blindness): 4.7 million Ghanaians in 85 districts at risk of contracting the disease
iWatch Africa assessment of data provided by the Ghana Health Service regarding Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) can confirm that an…
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