Tag Archives: MDG

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Ghana may not meet MDG4

Neonatal deaths, which constitute deaths that occur within the first four weeks of birth, constitute almost half of all deaths in children under the age of five in Ghana. According…

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$560million pledge by Gates for contraception

Melinda Gates has pledged $560 million as part of a campaign to expand access to contraception for women in some of the poorest countries in the world. The funding commitment…

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Gates foundation to pledge funds for contraceptives

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is set to unveil funding a sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars for a campaign to improve access to contraception in the…

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MOH to take a dive at Public Health

 The Ministry of Health is developing a working document to deal with the current bottlenecks in the public health sector supply system, Mr. Alban S.K. Bagbin, Minister of Health, has…

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Pneumonia kills more children under 5

sciencedaily-Pneumonia is the leading cause of death among children under 5, according to a new study. The reseearsch examined the distribution of child deaths globally by cause in 2010 and…

Preventable diseases still ravage children: study

Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children younger than five in 2010, a paper in The Lancet medical journal. A total 7.6 million children died…

UNFPA supports Midwifery training institutions

 April 27 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Friday presented 25 anatomical model and medical equipment valued at 250,000 dollars to the Ministry of Health for distribution to…