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Mental health bill to address stigma

ACCRA, 22 August 2011 (IRIN) - A bill before Ghana’s parliament aims to improve mental health care and encourage more health professionals to enter the sector by tackling one of the greatest impediments to both - stigma. full report

In Brief: Civil society studies West Africa "counter-terrorism plan"

 DAKAR, 9 August 2011 (IRIN) - Journalists and civil society members in West Africa analysed a “counter-terrorism plan” drawn up by the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) at a 4-5 August meeting in the Senegalese capital Dakar. full report

DISASTERS: ECOWAS stepping up response

 ABUJA, 13 July 2011 (IRIN) - Following years of discussion, representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are now testing joint disaster responses in light of increased flooding and more severe droughts in West Africa over the past decade, according to the African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD). full report

AFRICA: Malaria vaccine could have extra benefits

 LILONGWE, 20 June 2011 (IRIN) - The malaria vaccine that has eluded medical science for decades is now within reach, with the final phase of clinical trials underway in seven African countries, including Malawi, where the disease claims 6,500 lives a year, most of them children under the age of five. full report

WEST AFRICA: Meningitis cases dramatically down

 OUAGADOUGOU, 15 June 2011 (IRIN) - The roll-out of a revolutionary meningitis vaccination in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has dramatically cut transmission rates, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and if each country can find sufficient funds to co-finance the campaign, it will be extended to all 25 countries in the Africa meningitis belt by 2016, says the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). full report

AFRICA: Sleeping sickness in cattle put to bed?

 JOHANNESBURG, 20 May 2011 (IRIN) - New research on sleeping sickness in African cattle is holding out the possibility that in the not too distant future Africa could start seeing the introduction of cattle resistant to sleeping sickness - a disease which kills billions of dollars worth of livestock every year. full report

FOOD: Home-grown nutrition research for Africa

 JOHANNESBURG, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) - A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come, or SUNRAY, to develop a nutrition agenda for Africa, with specific emphasis on the 34 sub-Saharan countries. full report

AFRICA: Opposition building to Great Green Wall

 NAIROBI, 8 April 2011 (IRIN) - What’s green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. full report

GHANA: Doctors fear coming rains will fuel cholera

 ACCRA, 31 March 2011 (IRIN) - Health officials in Ghana are worried the rainy season, due to start in April, will fuel the spread of cholera, which has killed at least 69 people and stricken more than 5,000 in the past few months. full report

GHANA: Battling Buruli ulcer*

 ASHANTI/GREATER ACCRA REGIONS, 25 February 2011 (IRIN) - In his job as head of Ghana’s Buruli ulcer control programme, Dr Edwin Ampadu moves between delight over promising new medicines and frustration over long-held misconceptions that delay limb- and life-saving treatment; between victories like a young boy walking again and distress over a woman whose ulcer returned after surgery and skin grafts. full report

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