Togo: Stranger in a Strange Land - Adebayor's Silent Struggles
[Daily Maverick] Over the last few weeks, Emmanuel Adebayor has been posting some disturbing details about his family relations on Facebook. The most staggering came on Wednesday, when he spoke of how his brother threatened him with a knife and how he had considered suicide "many times". (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 22, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Be Vigilant - Togolese President Lauds Liberia With Caution
[FrontPageAfrica] On the day Liberia held its official program commemorating the end of the Ebola endemic as declared by the World Health organization (WHO), the President of the Republic of Togo, Essozimna Gnassingbe, has congratulated Liberia and its partners for the level of cordial working relationship that led to the achievement against the Ebola virus disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: African Leaders to Grace Liberia's Ebola Free Declaration Program
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -As the Liberian Government commemorates the declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) of Liberia as Ebola free on Monday, May 11, 2015, the President of the Republic of Togo and Supervisor of ECOWAS initiatives in the fight against Ebola, Pres. Faure Gnassingbe will arrive in Liberia on May 11, 2015 to join President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Government and people of Liberia in a ceremony commemorating this milestone victory over the Ebola Virus Disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 11, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: President Koroma Bags 2015 Alma Award for Excellence
[Sierra Leone Government]Sierra Leone is one of the proud Recipients of the 2015 African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) Award for Excellence for most improved in malaria control. Towing the line of President Koroma's leadership are Burundi, Central Africa Republic, South Sudan and Togo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 9, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Liberia: Togolese President Pays Solidarity Visit Here Today
[New Dawn]The President of the Republic of Togo and Supervisor of ECOWAS initiatives in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe arrives in Liberia Friday, February 6, 2015 for a one day Solidarity Visit. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Togolese President Gnassingbe Pays Solidarity Visit to Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica]Monrovia -The President of the Republic of Togo and Supervisor of ECOWAS initiatives in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe arrives in Liberia Friday, February 6, 2015 for a one day Solidarity Visit. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 6, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Togolese President in Accra for Ebola Meeting
[Ghana Govt.]President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe of Togo is in Accra to take part in a High Level Coordination Meeting of ECOWAS and its partners on the Ebola Virus Disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
West African leaders name Togo's president to lead Ebola response
ACCRA (Reuters) - West African leaders on Thursday appointed Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe to supervise the region's efforts to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic, which has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in the region. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Intimate partner sexual and physical violence among women in Togo, West Africa: Prevalence, associated factors, and the specific role of HIV infection - Burgos-Soto J, Orne-Gliemann J, Encrenaz G, Patassi A, Woronowski A, Kariyiare B, Lawson-Evi AK, Leroy V, Dabis F, Ekouevi DK, Becquet R.
This study... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 22, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Violence and Weapons Issues Source Type: news
Togo: Dealing As a Church With HIV
[WCC]"HIV and AIDS is not just a public health issue. It is a multi-layered social issue - an issue churches in West Africa should not ignore," says Rev. Godson Lawson, a pastor in the Methodist Church in Togo, a country where 110,000 people are living with HIV and 6,600 lives have been lost to the pandemic, according to recent UNAIDS estimates. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 13, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Suicidal feelings interferes with help-seeking in bullied adolescents - Kitagawa Y, Shimodera S, Togo F, Okazaki Y, Nishida A, Sasaki T.
PURPOSE: Being bullied is associated with the manifestation of suicidal feelings, which sharply increase in middle(-late) adolescence. Whether or not bullied middle(-late) adolescents with suicidal feelings seek help is therefore a critical issue, given th... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 6, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Liberia: Ebola - Hailing International Interventions
[New Dawn]Liberia is one of several countries in the West African sub region battling the current Ebola outbreak, which is unprecedented both in the number of cases and in its geographic scope. Guinea, where the current outbreak first emerged in West Africa, Sierra Leone and Nigeria are the three other countries hard hit by the deadly disease; and there are also fears that the disease has spread to Togo. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 15, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Ebola Scare Grips AFCON 2015 Qualifiers
[This Day]Togo wants its next month's Africa Cup of Nations game in Guinea to be moved because of fears about the Ebola virus. The match, the responsibility of the Confederation of African Football, is scheduled for 5 or 6 September and is in the first group round of qualifiers. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 12, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ebola virus disease update - West Africa
Between 31 July and 1 August 2014, a total of 163 new cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD; laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 61 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Three of these cases are in Nigeria and include two new probable cases — one is a health-care worker and one is a Nigerian who travelled to Guinea — and a suspected case in a nurse. National authorities in Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo continue to work closely with WHO and its partners in identification of contacts and contact tracing as well as in preparing response plans as a result of the recent visi...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - August 4, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola viru Source Type: news
Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update
Between 24 and 27 July 2014, a total of 122 new cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD; laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 57 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola epidemic trend in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone remains precarious with ongoing community and health-facility transmissions of infection. The surge in the number of new EVD cases calls for concentrated efforts by all to address the identified problems, such as health facility transmission and effective contact tracing. On 29 July 2014, the National IHR Focal Point for Nigeria confirmed that the...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - July 31, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola virus, ebola fever, ebola virus disease, ebola haemhorragic fever, ebola viru Source Type: news
