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  • Ghana tackles non-communicable diseases through healthier diets

    Ghana tackles non-communicable diseases through healthier diets

    A coalition of government agencies, including the Ministry of Health, Food and Drugs Authority, persons in academia as well as civil society is on a move to eradicating non-communicable diseases and undernutrition among others through a collaboration that will establish the evidence, tools, policy pathways, and evaluation to ensure effective …
  • Suboptimal Diets contributes to various diseases-Hon. Agyeman Manu

    Suboptimal Diets contributes to various diseases-Hon. Agyeman Manu

    The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that, suboptimal diets are cardinal contributors to increasing the risk of various diseases, whose impacts on health and economic systems are staggering. ” Subject experts tell us that population diets are influenced by food environments. They also tell us that unhealthy …
  • Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives Project launched in Accra

    Healthier Diets for Healthy Lives Project launched in Accra

    It is estimated that non-communicable diseases will become the leading cause of death in Africa amidst prevailing challenges of infectious diseases, undernutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies. Research suggests that unhealthy food environments hinder progress in overcoming malnutrition as well as non-communicable diseases. There is also increasing evidence for and recognition of …
  • Suboptimal Diets increases the risk of various diseases-Health Minister

    Suboptimal Diets increases the risk of various diseases-Health Minister

    The Minister for Health, Hon. Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has disclosed that, suboptimal diets are cardinal contributors to increasing the risk of various diseases, whose impacts on health and economic systems are staggering. ” Subject experts tell us that population diets are influenced by food environments. They also tell us that unhealthy …
  • Health Minister Launches HD4HL Project

    Health Minister Launches HD4HL Project

    The Ministry of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has launched the Developing evidence and action toward a double-duty food-based policy bundle to assure healthier diets in Ghana”. This Project is being co-implemented by a coalition of government agencies (including the Ministry of Health, Food and Drugs Authority, National Development Planning Commission), Academia …