I am a regular traveler with Kintampo usually as my place of embarkation or disembarkation. Kintampo is becoming known with news of horrific accidents that usually claim lots of lives…
In the line of my duties, I experienced a ride across the Volta Lake at Kete Krachi and Dambai all formerly in the Volta Region of Ghana. I loved it…
The body learns to fight what it has seen before in most cases. This is how our immune system is built up and the basic principle of immunization. Preparing before…
I heard the man sharing his ordeal about what happened to him two days-ago and could not help but share to caution all. Ololo, as I will call my narrator,…
When was the last time you shook hands with someone either at will or out of compulsion? Did you know where the person you shook hands with was coming from?…
One of the stages of the malaria parasite that needs to be targeted because it contributes to malaria transmission is the gametocytes. This is the stage of the parasite that…
I have been in professional practice as a Medical Laboratory Scientist since 2006. At my first station, I was part of the team responsible for the HIV/TB Clinic. Aside from…
Question: 1. Why are we deliberately avoiding the word “trial”, but saying, it is “piloting”? 2. Which of the vaccines in the EPI was ever “piloted” in Ghana? Some answers:…
I urge people to be like the Bereans in the Bible and not to take things they hear from uninformed positions hook, line and sinker. The malaria vaccine (RTSS/Mosquirex) has…
We now have the new malaria vaccine as part of the vaccines given in routine settings by the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in Ghana. The vaccine has been tested…
In a publication on ghanaweb.com, Ghana is launching the use of the World’s first malaria vaccine, RTSS (Mosquirex) in our routine health system today, 30th April 2019. Where is it…
The current government seems to have taken some credit for the great battle that was embarked to get rid of illegal small scale miners who were polluting our water bodies…
Ways to reduce your cancer risk as WHO advises.
When a woman becomes pregnant, there are several conditions that develop. Some have known causes but for others the causes are unknown. What could be described are things that if…
