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Hand hygiene - washing of hand with soap and water, rubbing of hand with ethanol and sanitizer is one of the basic but critical procedures in infection prevention and control, IPC. Researchers have established that the hand is one of the fastest mediums that human ­-to - human infection transmission happens.

As the human hand has continual... read more

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Ethnic groups in Ghana, like many other African countries, have diverse opinions and thoughts about menstruation. While the natural phenomenon is seen as unclean in some clans’ others also believe that menstrual blood can be used to invoke supernatural forces or bad omen. In a typical traditional home in Ghana, women and adolescent girls have to leave their homes to... read more

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On 15 March 2020, Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo ordered the immediate closure of all educational institutions in Ghana in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. In the same speech, he tasked the country’s education and communication ministries to roll out distance learning to salvage the academic year. 

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Gari (made of dried cassava flakes) is a common food staple in Ghana. Mixed with water, salt, sugar or condensed milk, it can be eaten with soups, or on its own. But go into a big Ghanaian supermarket, and you’re unlikely to find gari on the shelves.

That is a big problem for Sandra Ameworla, who runs Gari Boutique, a gari processing and pa... read more

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While biomass fuels are considered to be carbon neutral, and use wood residue and production waste that would otherwise rot or sit in landfills, systems to ensure sustainable and healthy resource management are complicated and costly. Because of this, stillborn births are increasing in developing countries, and are robbing them of economic futures.

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