Implementing the WHO End TB Strategy: Lessons from Prevalence Survey

Accra, 31 March 2015 - Ghana has just ended a two day discussions on a comprehensive response to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in line with the WHO End TB Strategy. The workshop was under the theme:  “Implementing the WHO End TB Strategy: Lessons from the Prevalence Survey” held in Accra from 25 to 26 March 2015.

“Fight Against Epilepsy initiative” in Ghana: A giver of hope, of bright and promisi...

Adam Abukari, 37 years old, a Ghanaian man from Savelugu/Nanton located in the Northern Region of Ghana, did not know that the seizure he was having was epilepsy until the day when doctors diagnosed him as having it. Epilepsy is a condition that affects the brain and causes repeated seizures. “I grew up before I started experiencing the seizures probably at the age of 20. I used to have about seven or five seizure episodes in a month,” he explains.