U.S. Defense Attache Lt. Col. Keith Blakely and Deputy Office of Security Cooperation Chief Lt. Col. John Van Steenburgh cut the ribbon with Commodore Sowa, Director General- Medical of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), on a newly donated laboratory facility in Takoradi in the Western Region. The laboratory will assist the GAF in developing and implementing military-specific HIV prevention, care and treatment programs, including: HIV testing and counseling: diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and screening for tuberculosis.
New USP Initiative in Sub-Saharan African Countries to Fight Substandard and Counterfeit Drugs.
Rockville, Md., May 13, 2013- In an effort to increase the number of experts and available tools to combat falsified, substandard and counterfeit medicines in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has launched the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) in Accra, Ghana.
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has been directed to conduct a nation-wide inspection of all markets with a view to look out for all illegal connections in the markets.
Hon Mahama Ayariga (MP), the Minister for Information and Media Relations, will deliver the keynote address on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama at the 1st All Africa PR & Strategic Communication Summit in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia today.
The address will focus on the ways that professional public relations and strategic communications are defining the emergence of Africa as the next frontier in global economic development.
A former Minister of Education, Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has stated that Ghana’s educational system must deliver new and updated content to students if they are to become more employable after graduation. Dr Spio-Garbrah was speaking to some 1,000 mostly first year students of the University of Ghana at the Great Hall of the University as part of the University’s 65th anniversary celebrations.
U.S. Defense Attache Lt. Col. Keith Blakely and Deputy Office of Security Cooperation Chief Lt. Col. John Van Steenburgh cut the ribbon with Commodore Sowa, Director General- Medical of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), on a newly donated laboratory facility in Takoradi in the Western Region. The laboratory will assist the GAF in developing and implementing military-specific HIV prevention, care and treatment programs, including: HIV testing and counseling: diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and screening for tuberculosis.
Hon Mahama Ayariga (MP), the Minister for Information and Media Relations, will deliver the keynote address on behalf of President John Dramani Mahama at the 1st All Africa PR & Strategic Communication Summit in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia today.