Thirty years in academia anniversary lecture: Public health is public wealth.
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2000-06
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Ghana Medical Journal
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CHALLENGES OF Y12000 AND BEYOND
• Prevention and control of both communicable
and non communicable diseases.
• Improvement of the Health Service.
• Quality manpower training.
DISEASE CONTROL
In future, we have to prevent and control not only
communicable diseases, but also non communicable
diseases. The big four among the conm1Unicable
disease arc; H1V/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and
Cholera.
HIV/AIDS has been dubbed the undeclared war in
Africa. It is spreading like bush-fire. Its toll is
among the working segment of our population. Sub
Saharan Africa is the epicentre of the pandemic
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HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, malaria, Cholera