Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, 739-8528 Japan Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, 739-8521 Japan Hokkaido Tokachi Agricultural Experiment Station, Memuro-cho, Hokkaido, 082-0071 Japan Agricultural Research Station-Kade, Faculty of Agriculture University of Ghana, Le...

Author affiliations: Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany (I.A. Asante, S. Bertram, G. Gabriel); Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (I.A. Asante, W.K. Ampofo); Center for Structural and Cellular Biology in Medicine at the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (S. Bertram, G. Gabriel); Veterinary S...

1 Disease Control Strategy Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Moshi, Tanzania, 5 Department of Medical Parasitology, Dakar Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S...

1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 2 Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 4 Dr. Battke SCIENTI...

1Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia; 2Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; 3Schools of Chemistry and Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 4Division of Rheumatology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO; and 5Department of Microbiology, University of Ghana Medical...

In recent years, many nations have decriminalized suicide and attempted suicide, including Canada, Ireland and Sri Lanka. The present paper discusses three countries that are moving toward decriminalizing suicidal behavior (India, Ghana and Singapore) and notes the different pressures for this change – in India from the Supreme Court, in Ghana from NGOs and healthcare professionals, and in Sing...

Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease endemic in West Africa but with no previous case reported in Ghana. We describe the first two laboratory confirmed cases of Lassa fever from the Ashanti Region of Ghana detected in October and December, 2011.

BACKGROUND Ghana's maternal mortality ratio remains high despite efforts made to meet Millennium Development Goal 5. A number of studies have been conducted on maternal mortality in Ghana; however, little is known about how the causes of maternal mortality are distributed in different socio-demographic subgroups. Therefore the aim of this study was to assess and analyse the causes of maternal m...

BACKGROUND Financial risk protection against the cost of unforeseen healthcare has gained global attention in recent years. Although Ghana implemented a nationwide health insurance scheme with a goal of reducing financial barriers to accessing healthcare and addressing impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare payments, there is a paucity of knowledge on the extent of financial ca...

In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines Programme published a list of ‘‘priority medicines’’ they considered essential for countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in child and maternal health [1]. This list was a subset of the model Essential Medicines List (EML), produced every 2 years by the WHO, which selects medicines on the basis of public health rele...