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Ghana Health Minister Rejects $109M US Compact, Asserts Sovereign Health Policy
Ghana's Health Minister Mintah Akandoh has publicly rejected a $109 million US health compact, stating that global health must be led by recipient countries rather than designed for them. The position extends the renegotiation dynamic…
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US Seeks to Renegotiate Rejected $109M Health Compact with Ghana
Latest: Health Minister Mintah Akandoh publicly rejects $109M US compact, asserting countries must lead their own global health agenda.
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Ghana Records 450 Suspected Yellow Fever Cases Since June
Latest: New analysis of Ghana's yellow fever numbers surfaces a structural gap between vaccination rates and actual protection levels, deepening the public health data picture beyond the 450 case count.
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African E-Health Startups Invited to Apply for Entrepreneurs for Resilience Programme
Latest: i3 closes four new pan-African health-tech deals, extending the Africa-wide health innovation funding activity flagged through the Entrepreneurs for Resilience programme.
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- 2026-10-13Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Rejects US Health Compact
Ghana's Health Minister Mintah Akandoh has publicly rejected a $109 million US health compact, stating that global health must be led by recipient countries rather than designed for them. The…
- 2026-10-13Unverified — not yet reviewed
Mahama Wins Global Health Award
President Mahama has received recognition for global health leadership at the 2026 World Health Summit in Berlin. The honour is assessed as elevating Ghana's international profile in health diplomacy…
- 2026-10-11Unverified — not yet reviewed
US Renegotiates Ghana Health Compact
The United States is seeking changes to a $109 million health compact with Ghana that was previously rejected, according to President Mahama. The renegotiation directly affects the funding landscape…
- 2026-10-11Unverified — not yet reviewed
Summit Targets Health Talent Retention
Mentapulse Africa has convened a Health and Labour Summit calling for improved working conditions to retain skilled health professionals across Africa. The Ghana-hosted event addresses the…
- 2026-10-10Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Eyes Local Vaccine Output
Ghana has set a target to produce its first locally manufactured vaccine by 2027, signalling an emerging biotech manufacturing ambition. The goal carries downstream relevance for healthtech and…
- 2026-10-10Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Eyes Hearing Care Hub
Ghana is exploring the establishment of a centre of excellence for hearing, communication, and cochlear implant care. The proposal could attract healthtech investment and specialist international…
- 2026-10-10Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Health Data Governance Warning
The Ghana Health Information Management Association has sounded an alarm over unlicensed practitioners managing patient health data, warning of direct threats to patient safety. The intervention…
- 2026-10-10Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Yellow Fever Coverage Gap
New analysis of Ghana's yellow fever data has identified a gap between vaccination coverage rates and actual protection levels in the population. The findings extend the public health data picture…
- 2026-10-10Unverified — not yet reviewed
Schizophrenia Tops Ghana Health Data
Ghana-sourced data shows that schizophrenia-related disorders account for the largest share of mental health cases recorded in the country. The data point is noted as context for the public health…
- 2026-10-09Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Urged to Fix Health Bureaucracy
Civil society organisation SEND Ghana has criticised the government's slow, bureaucracy-hampered response to Ghana's yellow fever outbreak, calling for an emergency health fund and prioritisation of…
- 2026-10-08Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Pilots Emergency Bed Tracker
The Ghanaian government has begun a pilot of a national emergency bed management system, with Health Minister Akandoh noting he monitors real-time bed availability directly from a screen in his…
- 2026-10-08Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Yellow Fever Cases Mount
Ghana's Health Minister has reported 450 suspected yellow fever cases recorded across the country since June 2026. The outbreak volume is assessed as signalling gaps in public-health data…
- 2026-10-07Unverified — not yet reviewed
Africa AMR Data Gap Exposed
New analysis argues that a continent-wide gap in antimicrobial resistance data is compounding the public health crisis in Africa, with the absence of reliable surveillance systems identified as a…
- 2026-10-04Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana Health Workforce Gap Signal
Ghana's Ministry of Health has announced a mop-up recruitment exercise for health professionals, signalling persistent workforce gaps in the public health system. The recruitment context is assessed…
- 2026-10-03Unverified — not yet reviewed
i3 Closes Four Healthtech Deals
Investment vehicle i3 has announced four new deals focused on healthcare innovation across Africa, with no named Ghanaian startup identified but the programme's pan-African scope making Ghanaian…
- 2026-10-02Unverified — not yet reviewed
Africa Healthtech Unicorn Challenge Set
Africa's health technology sector has been publicly challenged to produce billion-dollar companies, framing a concrete ambition target for the continent's health startups. The challenge is assessed…
- 2026-09-29Unverified — not yet reviewed
KNUST–GMTF AI Health Deal
KNUST and the Ghana Medical Trust Fund are exploring an AI partnership aimed at transforming healthcare delivery in Ghana. The initiative represents a concrete institution-led effort to embed…
- 2026-09-26Unverified — not yet reviewed
E-Health Startups: Funding Call Open
African e-health startups have been invited to apply for the 10th edition of the Entrepreneurs for Resilience programme, which provides funding support to health-focused ventures across the…
- 2026-09-26Unverified — not yet reviewed
VP Pushes Local Pharma Production
Ghana's Vice President has publicly called for stronger domestic pharmaceutical production capacity as a means of reducing the country's dependence on medicine imports. The statement highlights a…
- 2026-09-18Unverified — not yet reviewed
Ghana NCD Food Label Campaign
Ghana's government has launched a food warning label campaign in response to non-communicable diseases accounting for nearly 45% of deaths in the country. The initiative is a public health regulatory…
- 2026-09-16Unverified — not yet reviewed
Novartis Eyes GMTF Partnership
Novartis has expressed support for the Ghana Medical Trust Fund and signalled interest in a partnership to expand specialist healthcare in the country. The development adds a major global…
- 2026-09-14Unverified — not yet reviewed
16,000 Health Workers Recruited
Ghana's Health Minister has announced the recruitment of 16,000 health personnel to support the Free Primary Healthcare programme. The mass hiring represents a concrete workforce deployment step…
- 2026-09-11Unverified — not yet reviewed
GMTF Targets Ghana Health Gaps
The Ghana Medical Trust Fund has announced new cardiac, cancer, and diagnostic projects targeting critical gaps in the country's healthcare infrastructure. The initiative extends GMTF's documented…
- 2026-09-09Unverified — not yet reviewed
AI X-Ray for Africa's Radiologists
Nexus AI is deploying an AI-powered X-ray screening tool designed for settings with few radiologists, targeting low-resource health environments across Africa. The tool is directly applicable to…