Introduction The reported high level of mortality among patients both on clinical care and on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in Ghana in recent years has been blamed on an advance presentation of AIDS cases due to delay by patients accessing care at Hospitals. The study hypothesized that HIV and AIDS patients report at the ART clinics with very low CD4 lymphocyte count and determi...

CHOLERA OUTBREAKS There are lessons to be learnt from cholera outbreaks in Ghana. In his inaugural lecture, Professor G. A. Ashitey provides an account on the first cholera epidemic of 1970 in Ghana. Cholera outbreak in West Africa was first reported in Guinea. Although denied by the Government of Guinea the World Health Organisation had to break protocol and establish for the first time that “...

1 World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, C/O Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 74 Legon, Accra, Ghana 2 World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland 3 African Economic Research Consortium, 3rd Floor, Mebank Building, ...

Background The government of Ghana introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2004 with the goal of achieving universal coverage within 5 years. Evidence, however, shows that expanding NHIS coverage and especially retaining members have remained a challenge. A multilevel perspective was employed as a conceptual framework and methodological tool to examine why enrolment and retent...

1 Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 2 DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 Centre for Public Health Research & School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University, West London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, 4 Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Services, Dodo...

1 Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, 2 Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3 Asociacion Civil Selva Amazónica, Iquitos, Perú, 4 Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5 University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 6 National Institute for Medical Research, ...

New records of water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from streams in Ghana are presented. Six species are reported, one of these, Atractides (Atractides) ghanaensis n. sp., is described as new for science. First records for Ghana are given for A. (Atractides) damkoehleri (K. Viets, 1916), A. (A.) latisetus (K. Viets, 1916), A. (Polymegapus) kuehnei (...

1 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 2 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4Ghana Health Service/University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere University...

Adolescent girls in Ghana still face a number of challenges accessing reproductive/sexual health services despite efforts to improve their accessibility. This paper explores the key socio-demographic factors associated with contraceptive use amongst adolescent girls in Ghana using the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). Data from the 2008 GDHS was analyzed. Socio-demographic variab...

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is ambiguous regarding the nature of these effects. This paper applies techniques developed in the ‘macroeconometrics’ literature to estimate the dynamic linkages between aid and fiscal aggregates. Vector...