Completed Projects
1. The Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trial (VAST) 2. Epidemiology of Bancroftian filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District of
3. Bancroftian Filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District 4. Filariasis in northern Ghana: Some cultural beliefs and practices and their
5. Impact of Permethrin impregnated Bednets 6. Child Survival and Health in the Guinea Savanna (Ghana): A case-control
7. A community based study of risk factors in maternal mortality in the
Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
8. Variation of Malarial Antigens and Malaria Attack Rates in Northern Ghana 9. Assessment of Home Management of malaria in a rural community in Ghana. 10. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation of weekly
etaquine for chemo-suppression of Plasmodium falciparum in semi-immune adults living in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
11. Survey of Needs of People with Disability in the Upper East Region 12. Impact of Community-Based Health and Family Planning Services on
Maternal Mortality: The Navrongo Baseline Study
13. The Dynamics of Severe Anaemia and Malaria Parasitemia in Young
Children during the High (Malaria) Transmission Season in Northern Ghana
14. Child morbidity and Health seeking behavior 15. Social learning, social influence and fertility control 16. Migration, Sexual Health, and STD/AIDS: A Three-Country Study: Burkina
17. Prevalence of P. falciparum Parasitemia in Kassena-Nankana district of
18. Double-blind randomized clinical trial of artesunate rectal capsules on child
survival in the Kassena-Nankana, District of Ghana
19. Evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of EPI-linked malaria intermittent
20. Community Health and Family Planning project 21. Female Genital Mutilation study 22. Identify Traditional Communication Strategies for Reaching Rural
Adolescents with Reproductive Health Information: A qualitative Study
23. Maternal Health Study: Averting preventable Maternal Mortality in Ghana,
24. Efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine alone or in
combination as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana: a randomized study.
25. Using community-based volunteers to reach non-enrolled school-age children
through community-directed treatment of schistosomiasis in school-age children in rural northern Ghana
26. A Phase II/III Randomized Double-Blind Comparative Trial of Azithromycin
plus Chloroquine versus Mefloquine for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Africa
27. Population Genetics of P. falciparum parasite in natural populations of
28. Home management of Acute Febrille Illness in Northern Ghana using
Artesunate-Amodiaquine Combination: The Role of Rapid Malaria Diagnostic Testing
29. Promoting Healthy Sexual and Reproductive Health among Adolescents in
30. Rapid Diagnosis of Schistosoma Mansoni Using a questionnaire and Occult
31. Home Management of Malaria in Urban Northern Ghana: A Case Study of
32. Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among adult
population in the Kassena-Nankana District-A community Based Survey
33. The Navrongo Panel Survey 34. Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing (VCT) Project 35. Mutual Health Care Financing Study 36. An Exploratory Study of Inequality in Access and Utilization of Treatment
Information for Malaria Management in Young Children.
37. Hospital Based Burden of disease to assess impact of rotavirus associated
diarrhoea in under 5 year olds in the Kassena-Nankana district.
38. Mtimba studies 39. Incidence of Potential Malaria Vaccine Trial Endpoints in Cohorts of Young
Children Followed with Active or Passive Case Detection in The Kassena-Nankana District of Ghana
40. A Case Control Study of Severe Malaria in the Kassena-Nankana District
41. Immunological Correlates of protection against clinical malaria in a cohort of
young children in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana
42. Comparative efficacy of intramuscular Artemether and Intravenous Quinine
for the Treatment of Severe malaria in the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital.
43. Comparative Efficacy of Chloroquine, Amodiaquine and Sulphadoxine-
Pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana.
44. An open label randomized comparative study of amodiaquine artesunate and
their combination for the treatment of acute uncomplicated malaria.
45. The Heptavalent Trial 46. Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health project 47. Integrating Home-Based Care for PLWA into the Community-Based Health
Planning and Services (CHPS) of the Ghana Health Service
48. Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of RotaTeqTM among Infants in Asia
49. A pilot study of meningococcal carriage in countries of the African
50. The effects of sexual and reproductive health interventions on adolescents
utilization of reproductive health sevices in Kassena Nankana District
51. An Exploration of Moral Hazard Behaviours under the National Health
Insurance Scheme in the Kassena- Nankana District, Ghana
The Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections by Ricki Lewis, Ph.D. When penicillin became widely available during the second world war, it was a medical miracle, rapidly vanquishing the biggest wartime killer--infected wounds. Discovered initially by a French medical student, Ernest Duchesne, in 1896, and then rediscovered by Scottish physician Alexander Fleming in 1928, the product of the
Extended Abstracts – 21st Australian Clay Minerals Conference – Brisbane, August 2010 The effect of clay mineralogy on the transport of bromide and nalidixic acid in water- saturated soil columns K. Hanna1, E. Clervil1, 2, M. Usman1, E. Emmanuel2, C. Ruby1 1Laboratoire de Physique Chimie et Microbiologie pour l’Environnement, LCPME, UMR 7564 CNRS Université Henri Poincaré, 4