A good statistic can hide a hard truth. At the Zonal Maternal and Perinatal Deaths Review Meeting, held on 22nd October 2026 at the Heartland Hotel in Ada Foah, health leaders had real progress to celebrate because Zone 2 recorded zero maternal deaths in the period under review. Even so, the room spent most of its time on the babies who did not survive, and on what the health system must change so that fewer families face that loss. Who gathered, and why The Ada East District Health Directorate hosted the Ghana Health Service meeting for the Greater Accra Region. Regional representatives, district directors, medical superintendents, and paediatric and maternity heads from Ada East, Ada West, Ashaiman and Ningo-Prampram all took part, so decision-makers and frontline clinicians were able to speak to one another directly. The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer of Ada East, Mrs. Vivian Okpojah, opened the meeting and welcomed participants. The District Director of Health Services, Rev. Dr....
An evidence-based guide to a common, lifelong and entirely manageable infection. Genital herpes is not a rare affliction visited upon the careless. It is one of the most widespread viral infections in human history, and the majority of people who carry it will never know. The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 520 million people aged 15 to 49 were living with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in 2020, while a further 376 million carried a genital HSV-1 infection yet only about 205 million of them experienced any recognisable symptom that year. The virus is everywhere; awareness of it is not. That gap matters because herpes spreads most efficiently from people who have no sores, no warning signs, and no reason to suspect they are infectious. Understanding how the virus actually behaves how it invades, how it hides, and how it resurfaces is therefore the single most effective protection available. And the reassurance almost nobody hears at diagnosi...