Ghana - Facts About STD's

The text message arrives with life-saving discretion: a neutral "see you at the clinic tomorrow" to remind patients to pick up a fresh batch of anti-AIDS drugs.The free texts from South Africa's largest HIV treatment site are part of a push in ...

In 2007, there were a brief flurry of announcements in the African media that a possible cure for HIV/AIDS had been discovered in Ghana, consisting of an herbal treatment known as koankro which was given to several patients at Kubease, Ghana. Once ...

This paper documents the evaluation of a 20-month project to provide voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) to a mobile population of youth surrounding the Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. 1) to what extent targets for providing VCT services to the specified population ...

In the sandy streets of Namuskekende village in remote western Zambia, hundreds of people gathered Saturday around a giant projection screen to see television for the first time.The three-metre (10-foot) screen, powered by a generator and receiving broadcasts by satellite, flickered on ...

This article describes the effects of a national mass media and community-level stigma-reduction programme in Ghana, in which national and local religious leaders urged their congregations and the general public to have greater compassion for people living with HIV or AIDS (PLHA). ...

Topic: Ghana

Africa turns to cellphones for better health

What are the implications of the claim that a cure for AIDS has been found in the West African nation, Ghana

Reaching disenfranchised youth and mobile populations in Ghana through voluntary counselling and testing services for HIV

Zambian village glimpses first TV, tuned to World Cup

The effectiveness of a national communication campaign using religious leaders to reduce HIVrelated stigma in Ghana

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