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Breast Cancer: Hope for Future Generations calls for yearlong screening, sustained nationwide education

Hope for Future Generations (HFFG) has called for an all-year-round breast cancer screening and awareness campaign by stakeholders to reduce breast cancer cases in the country.

The Organisation also urged churches, mosques and the media to sustain th…

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Prioritise Mental Health in the workplace – Mental Health Alliance

The Alliance for Mental Health and Development (Mental Health Alliance) has joined the world to mark the 2024 World Mental Health Day, to raise awareness and promote the value of mental well-being in society.

The theme for this year is, ‘It is Time …

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World Sight Day: Parents urged to prioritize their children’s eye health

The Eye Care Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has urged parents and caregivers to prioritize their children’s eye health to help reduce disabilities.

Dr. Hornametor Afake, the head of the Eye Care Unit, who made the appeal at a press conferenc…

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Employers should prioritise mental health – MHA

The Alliance for Mental Health and Development (Mental Health Alliance) has called on employers particularly government to take practical steps to prioritise mental health in the workplace.

The investment case Ghana Somubi Dwumadie, a four-year disa…

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Youth League bemoans rising sea level at Cape Three Points

The Western Nzema Youth League (WNYL), a youth group, has raised concerns about the rise in sea level affecting residents at Cape Three Points in the Western Region’s Nzema enclave.

Dr Patrick Ekye Kwesie, Leader of the WNYL, who spoke to the Ghana …

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Dagliga JHS transforms bare land into green garden to tackle climate change

To combat climate change and restore degraded lands, the Dagliga Junior High School (JHS) in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region has successfully transformed a once bare landscape into a flourishing tree garden.

A tree planting project empo…

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Ghana launches 2024 Climate Change, Green Economy Week

Ghana has launched the 2024 Climate Change and Green Economy Week with a call to action to change the attitudes and lifestyles of Ghanaians toward environmental degradation.

At the media launch in Accra on Thursday, Dr Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, the Act…

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Aya Institute hosts ‘Ghana Decides Gender Watch’ 2024

The Aya Institute over the weekend commenced its quadrennial electioneering initiative, ‘Ghana Decides Gender Watch'(GDGW) 2024, a research and advocacy initiative, aimed at tracking and highlighting gender dynamics in Ghana’s election 2024.

The cura…

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Hajia Samira Bawumia donates hospital equipment to Dormaa West District Hospital

Hajia Samira Bawumia, the wife of the Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Monday donated hospital equipment to the Dormaa West District Hospital at Nkrankwanta in the Bono Region

The equipment includes surgical and medical beds, syringes, s…

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Plan International Ghana ends YAL project

The Youth Advocacy and Leadership (YAL) project and the 1.8 billion Young People for Change Campaign have ended after 18 months of implementation.

Plan International Ghana, the implementing organisation, held a close-out event to review and celebrate…