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The AYA Integrated Healthcare Initiative, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), has donated information and communication technology (ICT) equipment to the National Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) Programme of the Ghana Health Service to support the Programme’s expanding operations and service delivery efforts.
Dr. Joseph Kwadwo Larbi Opare, Program Manager for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at the Ghana Health Service has emphasized the important role of frontline health workers in improving early detection, referral, and management of NTDs across Ghana during a training programme for Community Health Officers and frontline nurses organized by the Service in partnership with World Vision Ghana.
The Ghana Health Service, through the National Public Health Emergency Operation Centre (PHEOC), in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), WHO Ghana and other partners have opened a workshop to validate and finalize two key national documents guiding the country's public health emergency response: the National Public Health Emergency Operations Centre Standard Operating Procedures (PHEOC SOPs) and the National Public Health Workforce Surge Standard Operating Procedures (WS-SOPs).
The Ghana Health Service has inaugurated the National Infant and Young Child Nutrition Committee (NIYCNC), a new multi sectoral body established to provide strategic leadership, policy guidance and coordination to improve infant and young child nutrition across the country.
The 2026 Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Evidence Summit organised by the Health Promotion Division opened in Accra with a call for stronger use of evidence, research and reliable data to drive sustainable health and wellbeing in Ghana.
The Service has received 205 laptop computers from the World Health Organization (WHO), with funding support from the Pandemic Fund, to strengthen Ghana's capacity for disease surveillance, laboratory services and health workforce development as part of efforts to strengthen the country's health security.
Ghana joined the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control at a 3-day regional workshop on capacity building for Risk Communication and Community Engagement this week in Abuja, Nigeria.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has formally inaugurated the Primary Healthcare Strengthening Technical Working Committee (PHCSTC), a new coordinating platform established by the directive of the Director-General to harmonize and accelerate the country's flagship primary health care (PHC) initiatives.
The Ghana Health Service and the International Sickle Cell Centre (ISCC) have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen Ghana's national response to sickle cell disease (SCD) through coordinated action in education, screening, comprehensive care, research, policy and health systems strengthening.
The Ghana Health Service, in collaboration with development partners, has highlighted significant improvements in primary health care delivery following the successful implementation of the three-year Primary Health Care Performance Management (PHC-PM) Project in the North Tongu District and Akwapim South Municipality.
The Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, through the AYA Integrated Healthcare Initiative, have completed an important exercise to calibrate and install medical equipment and train 170 health workers across five regions, strengthening Ghana's response to non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Ghana has joined the global community to commemorate World Hepatitis Day 2026 with a renewed commitment to breaking down barriers to the prevention, testing and treatment of viral hepatitis.
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