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MVI and GSK visit KHRC – 01 June, 2010
 Three officials from the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health/ Malaria Vaccine Initiative (PATH/MVI) and one from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) paid a three day official visit to the Kintampo Health Research Centre KHRC). This took place from 1st – 3rd June, 2010. Read more on this here...»
A High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) workshop was held from the 8th – 11th May, 2010 at the clinical laboratory of the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC). Participants were mainly laboratory scientists drawn from four African countries, namely: Burkina Faso (Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé), Cameroon (University of Yaoundé), Ghana (Kintampo Health Research Centre) and Mali (Malaria Research and Training Center). Read more on this here...»
World Malaria Day is an annual event which falls on 25th April. This year’s
event was marked by the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC), Ghana Health
Service. KHRC is a centre of excellence for evaluating malaria control interventions.
It is one of eleven (11) sites in seven (7) African countries carrying out
the third Phase of the RTS,S Malaria vaccine trial and other malaria studies. Read more on this here...»
A panel of International experts jointly awarded Dr Samuel Newton of KHRC and some other team from Krygistan the "2009 Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) award".
Dr Newton wrote on the vitamin A research work from Navrongo to Kintampo and how research has influenced policy.
For his award, Dr. Newton will receive a citation, $1,000 and will be sponosored to present his work at an international conference yet to be announced.
For more information visit: http://www.chnri.org/
Microscopy continues to be the gold standard for malaria diagnosis in routine care in health services as well as intervention research. It is however subjective and could lead to diagnostic errors such as false negatives, false positives, inaccurate parasite quantification and speciation in situations where the microscopist does not have the requisite equipment, is not well-trained and/or motivated. More....
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baseline survey was conducted in the Asutifi, Tano North
and South Districts and the Techiman Municipality in 2007. This was done
in order to obtain information which will help the Ghana Health Service
as well as its collaborators in their plans to prevent adverse health events
that may occur as a result of the growing socio- economic activities associated
with a mining community. More....
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