Awareness Focus Archives – African Journal of Current Medical Research

State of Chronic Kidney Disease in Ghana as we Celebrate World Kidney Day 2020

April 1, 2020
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Dr. Elliot Koranteng Tannor1 Senior Specialist Physician/Nephrologist – Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana World Kidney Day is a day set aside every year to create awareness on the impact of kidney disease globally. This has become necessary as a result of the increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) globally, in Africa and in […]

Global 90-90-90 HIV strategy: Ghana’s Campaign

December 2, 2017
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2016 worldwide estimates indicate that there were 36.7 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) out of which 1.8 million were newly infected. Only 53% of the PLHIV were receiving treatment globally. An estimated 1.0 million deaths was also recorded from HIV related events in the year. The WHO African Region is the greatest affected holding about two-thirds of PLHIV […]