A quiet negotiation between KNUST and Ghana Medical Trust Fund could reshape healthcare delivery in Ghana — or entrench a two-tier system where AI tools remain concentrated in teaching hospitals while rural clinics wait. This special investigation examines the procurement, infrastructure gaps, and equity questions that nobody is asking about Ghana’s most ambitious health AI partnership.
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Ghana’s €2m PharmaVax programme backs eight research projects as Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh pushes researchers to turn local discoveries into medicines, vaccines and health technologies.
After 75 years, Jehovah’s Witnesses reportedly ease their strict blood transfusion doctrine, allowing use of their own stored blood. This investigative report explores the medical, ethical, and global implications of the shift, including its potential impact on healthcare systems in Ghana and beyond.
Ghana’s chimpanzees are disappearing fast due to illegal mining, deforestation, and weak laws. This Ghanaian Watch special report exposes the legal failures, political complicity, and urgent conservation battles to save fewer than 60 remaining chimpanzees in Ghana.
Ghana’s fight against illegal mining has reached a dangerous peak, with armed miners defying environmental laws. Professor Nana Ama Browne Klutse of the EPA unveils a groundbreaking $200,000 nano technology solution designed to bring mercury-free, clean waters to Ghana’s polluted mining zones and end the nation’s era of gunpoint governance.
In Bolove-Nolope, Ghana, thousands of fall armyworms have wiped out over 50 acres of maize and vegetables, leaving farmers desperate and experts warning that Ghana’s food security is at risk unless urgent action is taken.
Adwoa works hard on her 15-acre cocoa farm. With the help of these trees, she’s increased her cocoa harvest by 50%. But her carbon earnings for the whole year? Just $14.72. Meanwhile, big chocolate companies in Europe are making over $120 million by trading carbon credits from trees like hers.
Adwoa is one of 140,000 cocoa farmers in Ghana who joined the REDD+ program. It promised that farmers would get paid for protecting trees and reducing deforestation. But in her region, Western North, nearly 92% of farmers have no formal land documents. Because of this, their trees don’t count in the digital systems used to trade carbon. They are left out.
The Machine Sees What It’s Told to See
Cadbury’s Cocoa Life program says their AI can spot child labor with 85% accuracy, but only within the GPS locations given to them by cocoa cooperatives. That means if a child like Kofi walks out of the cocoa field and into a nearby mine, the system stops tracking him.
“Our satellites can identify children carrying machetes or cocoa sacks,” said a Nestlé sustainability officer, who asked not to be named. “But if that same child enters a mine pit after school? Our system marks that as ‘out of scope.’”
For more than 20 years, a rock with dinosaur footprints sat unnoticed in a school in Queensland, Australia. No one realized how important it was until scientists recently examined it.
Can Ghana support the future of vaccines? Explore the promise and challenges of building mRNA infrastructure in Africa’s new health frontier.”