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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...»

HPLC training held at KHRC – 11 May, 2010

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...»

25th April, 2010:– KHRC celebrates World Malaria Day

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...»

Dr. Samuel Newton wins 2009 Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) award

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/

18th – 22nd January, 2010:- KHRC trains microscopists from NMIMR and NHRC.

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....

Dissemination of findings from a health survey conducted in the Newmont Mining Area.

A 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....