The team at AMPATH Ghana has launched a Clinical Pathways initiative to adapt current evidence-based guidelines into realistic and usable clinical algorithms for management of common illnesses at Tamale Teaching Hospital.
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The use of skin-lightening creams poses a significant risk to adolescent health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries like Ghana.
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Through the AMPATH Ghana partnership, faculty from Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) and NYU Grossman School of Medicine (NYUGSOM) are collaborating to strengthen medical education in the area of neurology.
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Cervical cancer, despite being preventable and curable, is one of the leading causes of death for young women in Africa.
Read MoreFour Ghanaian medical students came to NYUGSOM in September for a six-week global health elective as part of the AMPATH Ghana partnership between NYUGSOM and University for Development Studies School of Medicine in Tamale, Ghana.
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Faculty from NYUGSOM and UDS-SoM are training OB/GYN specialists at TTH to use ultrasound guided imaging to manage complex obstetric and gynecological cases.
Read MoreIn northern Ghana, Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) is establishing a new state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic laboratory that will significantly improve the speed and capacity for laboratory testing of not only COVID-19, but also HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and chronic diseases.
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Climate change threatens to widen existing social and health disparities worldwide.
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Medical students at UDS-SoM are now able to better study and understand the human anatomy after receiving an Anatomage table, co-funded by UDS-SoM and generous AMPATH Ghana donors.
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AMPATH Ghana is facilitating the establishment of a new state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic laboratory at Tamale Teaching Hospital that will significantly improve speed and capacity for laboratory testing of not only COVID-19, but also HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and chronic diseases.
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AMPATH partners in Ghana are creating new relationships with organizations such as the Afya Foundation whose mission is to improve global healthcare delivery by providing access to medical equipment in underserved and compromised health systems worldwide.
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Dr. Amanda Klinger, a clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a hospitalist at Bellevue Hospital Center, and Dr. Odalys Rivera, head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics at the UDS School of Medicine, have begun collaborating in a series of lectures for 4th- and 6th-year Ghanaian medical students. Topics include infectious diseases and clinical pharmacology.
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As cases spiked in both Ghana and the U.S., clinical teams from NYU, UDS and TTH exchanged protocols, guidelines, and recommendations for managing patients with COVID, triage protocols, and preventing COVID infection among health care staff.
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