News:
April 30, 2025
A member of the Select Committee on Health and Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, Alexander Akwesi Acquah has arrived at Praia, in Cape Verde, together with colleagues to attend the annual meeting of West African Health Organisation.
The meeting is geared towards reviewing financial support given to ECOWAS states for some health programmes.
The three day meeting will assess how the steering committees of the member states have supervised the utilisation of support to countries and also explain future programmes.
Among the support granted by the WAHO to Ghana include:
1. PR 10017603 – Raising awareness of sexual and reproductive health and personal/menstrual hygiene among young girls and women
2. PR 10017251 – Immunological responses to PCV-13 and its impact on the incidence of meningitis in the northern region of Ghana
3. PR 10013107 – Research on profiling malaria and other febrile illnesses to improve malaria case detection and management in West Africa
4. PR 10021442 – Preparedness to fight against the monkey pox epidemic
5. PR 10020818 – Production of Ghana’s Health Accounts
6. PR 10022793 – Review of monographs and medicinal plants (2009) of Ghana
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