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Transforming Ghana’s health sector through quality leadership

In Ghana, WHO and the Ministry of Health, with support from the UK Department of Health and Social Care through the health workforce programme are leveraging the programme to build the necessary leadership and management competencies to drive its reform agenda and effectively address the rapidly evolving health sector needs through the Leadership for Health Transformation programme. 
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Focused interventions to strengthen mental health service delivery in Ghana

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The impact of the risks to mental health and associated disorders continue to undermine the attainment of the highest standard of health in African countries. The burden of increasing prevalence of mental health disorders is compounded by limited access to quality mental health services, and the exclusion of affected people from productive likelihoods. 

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Catching up on missed childhood vaccinations

When a man in Temessadou M’Boket – a village in the densely forested southern Guinea region – died in early August 2021 after suffering fever, headache and haemorrhage, Fassara Diawara, the head of a local clinic, was quick to act. 
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Sustaining the mental health agenda in Ghana

The World Health Organization (WHO) is enhancing the capacity of the implementing regions and partners to ensure the sustainability of the initiative and other inventions even after the implementation period.
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Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data

World Health Organization (WHO) with support from Botnar Foundation is implementing a project dubbed “Empowering adolescents to lead change using health data” with the aim of generating adolescent health information from students in cities across four low- and middle-income countries, comprising Fez, Morocco; Jaipur, India; Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica; and Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.
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Africa steps up access to high-quality laboratory data for polio eradication

Brazzaville/Accra – While Africa has made significant progress in the fight against polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) is prioritizing the strengthening of in-country laboratory capacity in recognition of the critical role of high-quality data in the detection of poliovirus outbreaks.

In partnership with the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN), WHO is capacitating countries including Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Senegal in poliovirus sequencing techniques.

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