Fungal Infections, Treatment and Antifungal Resistance: The Sub-Saharan African Context.

Fungal pathogens cause a wide range of infections in humans, from superficial to disfiguring, allergic syndromes, and life-threatening invasive infections, affecting over a billion individuals globally. With an estimated 1.5 million deaths annually attributable to them, fungal pathogens are a major cause of mortality in humans, especially people with underlying immunosuppression.

Predictors of HIV status disclosure among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in Ghana: the disclosure conundrum and its policy implications in resource limited settings.

Background: Globally, over 40 million lives have been claimed by HIV/AIDS. In Ghana, more than 350,000 people are living with HIV. Non-disclosure of HIV status is a major barrier to HIV/AIDS eradication; yet, little is known of the determinants of HIV status disclosure in resource limited settings in Africa like Ghana.

Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on complicated malaria admissions and outcomes in the paediatric Ho Teaching Hospital of the Volta Region of Ghana.

Since Ghana recorded its first cases of COVID-19 in early March 2020, healthcare delivery in the country has been hugely affected by the pandemic. Malaria continues to be an important public health problem in terms of morbidity and mortality among children, and it is responsible for significant hospital visits and admission. It is likely that, as with other illnesses, the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted health seeking behaviour, hospital visits, and admissions of malaria among the paediatric population in Ghana.

Is malaria immunity a possible protection against severe symptoms and outcomes of COVID-19?

Unlabelled: Malaria-endemic areas of the world are noted for high morbidity and mortality from malaria. Also noted in these areas is the majority of persons in the population having acquired malaria immunity. Though this acquired malaria immunity does not prevent infection, it resists the multiplication of parasites, restricting disease to merely uncomplicated cases or asymptomatic infections.