Advertisement AdvertisementThe Second International Nursing Conference to create an enabling environment for maintaining standards in nursing practice within the West African sub-region has opened. It is being organised by the Department of Nursing of the Valley View University (VVU) in collaboration with a team of Health Educators from the United States of America. The conference...
Hundred and twenty people with disability in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa (AOB) District in the Central Region have benefited from a financial support from government. The amount, distributed to each to each beneficiary, ranged from GH¢150 to GH¢500 and was sourced from their two per cent share of the District Assemble Common Fund. The...
The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has called on Government and other disability networks in the country to help strengthen the use of sign language among the Ghanaian populace. According to the Association, though its members were also entitled to the right to education, the communication barrier that lied between the Hearing...
The First Lady, Dr. (Mrs) Ernestina Naadu Mills has called for proper regulation of the midwifery profession, in order to make it more attractive to younger generations. This, she noted, will require sustainable investments in education and human resource from government, private sectors, communities and individuals. Dr. Ernestina Naadu Mills made the call when...
A senior United Nations human rights official has voiced concern over a wave of violence inside prisons in South America, where at least eight inmates have been killed in the past two weeks in four separate countries. Three prisoners died in Uruguay, two in Argentina, two in Venezuela and one in Chile, the UN...
We are all advised to live healthier lifestyles? Eat more healthily, lose weight, exercise more, stop smoking? And so on. For people who have Type 2 diabetes this advice is an important part of the management of diabetic diet meals. You may be surprised to learn that you actually have the potential to reduce...
In 1981, the first case of atypical skin lesions and an aggressive disease of Kaposi’s sarcoma appeared in homosexual men. These accounts marked the initial onset of a condition that became known as Acquired Immune Disease Syndrome (AIDS). Within twenty years, AIDS became a global epidemic; an estimated 20 million people died, and an...
