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World food Safety day: how safe is your food?

Foodborne diseases resulting from adulteration, contamination, mishandling and poor conditions under which food is prepared and served remains a public health threat in many countries and Ghana is no exception. Especially in an era where young Ghanaians aged between 15-45 years depend on street foods with males and single women dominating fast food sales points in u... read more

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Food Safety; poisonous grasscutter endangers hundreds of lives in Africa

In Ghana and other parts of West Africa, the greater cane rat popularly known as grasscutter is a highly patronized delicacy for many due to its great taste and protein content, but now researchers and scientists are warning that consuming grasscutter poisoned with either yellow oleander root power or carbofuran could be detrimental to human health.

Ghana; Fisheries sector wage war against illegal, unreported and unregulated IUU fishing.

Ghana’s ministry of fisheries and aquaculture is waging war against illegalities on the country’s territorial waters after a successful implementation of its two closed seasons in 2019  to replenish the country’s fish stock as part of measures to control illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Elizabeth Afoley-Quaye the minister of fisheries and aquac... read more
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Neglecting the Already Neglected

More than 1.5 billion people in the world suffer from Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - a cohort of parasitic, viral, and bacterial diseases that cause substantial and a long term illness. Out of this, Africa bears 39 percent of this burden with Ghana being endemic with a considerable number of them - namely Lymphatic Filariasis, Onchocerciasis, Trachoma, Schisto... read more

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Assessing WASH gaps in Ghana; impact of stakeholders on their communities

Water, sanitation and hygiene, WASH issues remains a challenge for many developing countries and Ghana is no exception. These challenges comprise among others inadequate supply of safe drinking water to rural and peri-urban areas, irregular supply of potable drinking water and inadequate sanitation and wastewater infrastructure to satisfy the needs and demands of th... read more

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