Overcrowding at Kumasi Central Prison has turned it into a laboratory for treating neglected tropical diseases. The lack of ...

Scorpion sting envenomation meets all the criteria to be recognised as a neglected tropical disease, yet it remains ...

For the past two decades, large multinational pharmaceutical companies have increasingly withdrawn from researching medicines ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

Snakebites cost India’s poorest thousands in treatment. The average “out-of-pocket expenditure” for the most impoverished: at ...

A team of healthcare workers from a nearby clinic visited them as part of a schistosomiasis screening programme.

In recent decades, there has been increasing focus on individual responsibility for health. The emphasis for non-communicable ...

Cyril (not real name), an 11-year-old class six pupil of a basic school in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East ...

The first new malaria treatment in decades holds promise against rising drug resistance after Swiss drugmaker Novartis ...

In the heart of Ghana rsquo;s Upper East Region, the Bongo District is fighting a quiet but devastating battle .

Imagine being a civic leader dealing with the unimaginable – an Ebola or a Zika outbreak threatening the lives of your ...