It’s a wonderful idea when you’re on a big lake, everything around you is quiet and peaceful and the sunset is imminent. You glide silently through the water and hear the sounds of nature and the soft splashing of the paddle while admiring everything around you. It’s just like that...
The Effect of Deltamethrin-treated Net Fencing around Cattle Enclosures on Outdoor-biting Mosquitoes in Kumasi, Ghana Classic vector control strategies target mosquitoes indoors as the main transmitters of malaria are indoor-biting and –resting mosquitoes. However, the in... MF Maia,A Abonuusum,LM...
Ghana, he found inspiration when he began following around three brothers who wouldDJfor everybody in their neighborhood during weekend parties, which Pages would help set up. The then-16-year-old migrated from West Africa to the West Coast of the United States and settled in...
(1972). Growing up in two worlds: Education and transition among the Sisala of Northern Ghana. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Google Scholar Guemple, D. L. (1979). Inuit socialization: A study of children as social actors in an Eskimo community. In I. Karigoudar (Ed.), ...
a. So far, the Ebola virus has killed 763 people in Africa. b. The outbreak is the biggest Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen. c. The outbreak is currently spread across three countries. d. Ministers from all African countries will meet for talks in Ghana. e. The WHO said drastic...
It is all hands on deck as government, humanitarian, and private sectors get airports ready for disasters in the Philippines.
Playing a pivotal role at both the international level and within the Ghanaian policy context were 'policy networks' formed either formally (WHO) or informally (Ghana) around an issue area. These networks of professionals serve as the primary conduit of information between researchers and policy-...
Around the world, community health workers (CHWs) of many sorts constitute essential actors in public health efforts [66]. Specifically, they uniquely afford a bridging function: CHW programmes have a role to play that can be fulfilled neither by formal health services nor by communities alone ...
which will take place over four days this fall in Berlin to benefit her NGO, theToni Garrn Foundation. The foundation, which Garrn began in 2016, aims to uplift women and girls in Ghana, Uganda, and Burundi by doing everything from providing scholarships to attend school to improving infrastr...
Background: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) has been designated by WHO as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa, and the development of newborn screening (NBS) is crucial to the reduction of high SCD morbidity and mortality. Strategies from the field of implementation science can be useful...