Special Covid Vax

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri  Accra, Ghana – On a 25-acre land at Larkpleku in the Ningo-Pramparm District of the Greater-Accra region sits Ghana’s leading sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing company, Atlantic Lifesciences Ltd.  Commissioned two years ago on April, 22, 2022, by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the company specialises in the production of various sterile dosage forms of pharmaceutical drugs, including large and small volume parentals – medication that is administered by injection or […]

By Crispin Tulay Monrovia, Liberia – Health authorities in the Mano River Union (MRU) Basin region are grappling with the enormous task to ‘kick polio’ out of their respective countries and by extension, the region. The MRU countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast and Liberia Latest available health statistics and information show that in

Livestock holding area at Monrovia’s “Cow Factory” or “Slaughterhouse. (Credit: Crispin Tulay)

Ouestafnews – in collaboration with Awoko News. In December 2022, the government of Sierra Leone marked a major victory in its three-year and still on-going battle against the COVID-19 virus. “As of December 2022, we surpassed the threshold of 70% percent of the population that have been vaccinated,” said Harold Thomas, Health Education Program Manager

Even before the COVID-19 virus pandemic hit, the people living in Liberia’s West Point community were used to dealing with a major public health crisis. West Point is a sprawling slum fishing community situated in the heart of the capital Monrovia on the shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean. By Crispin J. Tulay

By: Kenneth Bracwell

“The Bible City” “Only way out is to repent” “Hell fire is for real sinners” These were some of the inscriptions that welcomed me to the home of Evangelist Setordzi Dogbey, 67, who lives with his wife and children at Setsinu Avanukpota, a small community within the Anloga District of the Volta Region, Ghana. Anloga

Ghana’s COVID-19 infection rates have significantly decreased in recent times since the country recorded its first two cases on March 12, 2020 after the pandemic hit the world in December 2019. The country has seen a dramatic decrease in COVID-19 infections. From an average daily case count of about 1,500, Ghana, as of December 16,

The season of Christmas comes with lots of compliments, well-wishes, and cautionary messages among families, friends, and citizens at-large to ensure an incident-free period.   For Ghanaians this year, the traditional holiday season messages included one from the government urging more people to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Ahead of the festivities, the week