WHO EB Greenlights Evaluation of Countries’ Work to Curb Fake Medicines, in Wake of Child Deaths
World Health Organization’s Executive Board (EB) has gotten behind the rollout of an independent evaluation of the agency’s member state mechanism addressing falsified and substandard medical products in order to see how surveillance and enforcement of production standards could be improved. The initiative, which now needs to go to the World Health Assembly in May, follows in […]
HIV Test kits to be in pharmacies soon as Ghana records over 23,000 new infections
HIV Test kits: The National AIDS/STI Control Programme says Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Kits will soon be made available in pharmacies as part of efforts to control national HIV infections. Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, the Programme Manager, said ready access to the self-testing kits would ultimately lead to early diagnosis and effective treatment to reduce […]
Pharmacies in Ghana engaged in clandestine abortions
Some pharmacies in Ghana are making profit by clandestinely assisting clients who request for an abortion at their facilities to access a restricted drug for that purpose. The restricted Mifabon kit is used in terminating pregnancies in the early stages. This disturbing practice is being carried out in retail pharmacies within local communities and it […]
French pharmaceutical company appeals conviction over weight-loss drug
The drug company Servier on Monday launched an appeal in a Paris court against an earlier decision in the so-called Mediator affair. The group was heavily fined in 2021 for aggravated fraud and involuntary manslaughter in the production and marketing of a slimming drug. Launched in 1976, Mediator was intended to treat excess weight in diabetes patients. The […]
National Health Insurance reviews medicine list and increases service tariffs
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has reviewed its medicine list and service tariffs upward effective February 1, 2023. A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency said framework medicines had been increased by 50 per cent plus an additional 30 per cent marginal increase by the NHIA. It said non- framework medicines had been […]