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Article: Carter: "Fight against Guinea worm disease needs more effort"
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- New African
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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"Ghana must do more to raise public awareness and ensure a sense of urgency to finally put an end to the social injustice of Guinea worm disease," says the Carter Centre.
Last year, Ghana set a deadline to stop the transmission of Guinea worm disease by March 2007 to coincide with the country's Golden Jubilee celebrations. The Ministry of Health, through its Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, has since stepped up efforts to combat the disease, including announcing free treatment in all public hospitals and clinics and opening 10 case containment centres. However, the Ministry's efforts have not been good enough and Ghana still ranks as the second-most endemic country in the world. The first ...