SciDev.Net Blantyre, Malawi — A millet-based diet could lower the risk of diabetes, a rapidly growing problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study suggests. The finding offers the potential for nutritionists to design appropriate meals for people with diabetes as well as others without the disease as a preventive approach. The study, published August in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, analyses […]
Mr. Shekar Mehta, Rotary International President, has congratulated the Government of Ghana, for showing immense zeal and commitment towards the fight against poliomyelitis. Mr. Mehta, who is on a two-day working visit to Ghana, said this in Accra, when he unveiled a billboard showcasing educative material on the prevention of the polio virus. He said […]
Several doctors have endorsed the first ever herbal immune booster mixture in the country. After receiving its approval from the Food and Drugs Authority(FDA), the mixture which was launched last Wednesday has been approved by Dr Kofi Bobi Barimah, Acting Executive Director of the Mampong Centre for Plant Medicine Research(CPMR), Dr Albert Wirekoh-Tawiah, a medical […]
By Kesete Admasu In the midst of the tragedy and turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s gratifying to see work continuing in Africa to find new ways of fighting malaria, a very old disease that has been a formidable foe for thousands of years and still kills 400,000 people every year, most of them […]
Over the past few decades, the maternal mortality rate in Ghana has seen a steady decline due to several factors and robust systems put in place to ensure safe pregnancy and delivery. Data available to the Ghana Health Service shows a total number of 875 maternal deaths in 2018 and 838 in 2019. Â This figure […]
