Projects

Navrongo Health Research Centre has carried out a significant number of scientific projects and continues to engage stakeholders in formulation new projects.

Completed Projects:

  1. The Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trial (VAST)
  2. Epidemiology of Bancroftian filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana
  3. Bancroftian Filariasis in the Kassena-Nankana District
  4. Filariasis in northern Ghana: Some cultural beliefs and practices and their implications for disease control
  5. Impact of Permethrin impregnated Bednets
  6. Child Survival and Health in the Guinea Savanna (Ghana): A case-control study
  7. A community based study of risk factors in maternal mortality in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
  8. Variation of Malarial Antigens and Malaria Attack Rates in Northern Ghana
  9. Assessment of Home Management of malaria in a rural community in Ghana.
  10. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation of weekly etaquine for chemo-suppression of Plasmodium falciparum in semi-immune adults living in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana
  11. Survey of Needs of People with Disability in the Upper East Region
  12. Impact of Community-Based Health and Family Planning Services on Maternal Mortality: The Navrongo Baseline Study
  13. The Dynamics of Severe Anaemia and Malaria Parasitemia in Young Children during the High (Malaria) Transmission Season in Northern Ghana
  14. Child morbidity and Health seeking behavior
  15. Social learning, social influence and fertility control
  16. Migration, Sexual Health, and STD/AIDS: A Three-Country Study: Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Togo
  17. Prevalence of P. falciparum Parasitemia in Kassena-Nankana district of Northern Ghana
  18. Double-blind randomized clinical trial of artesunate rectal capsulesĀ on childĀ  survival in the Kassena-Nankana, District of Ghana
  19. Evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of EPI-linked malaria intermittent chemotherapy and iron supplementation.
  20. Community Health and Family Planning project
  21. Female Genital Mutilation study
  22. Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among adult population in the Kassena-Nankana District-A community Based Survey
  23. The Navrongo Panel Survey
  24. Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing (VCT) Project
  25. Mutual Health Care Financing Study
  26. An Exploratory Study of Inequality in Access and Utilization of Treatment Information for Malaria Management in Young Children.
  27. Hospital Based Burden of disease to assess impact of rotavirus associated diarrhoea in under 5 year olds in the Kassena-Nankana district.
  28. Mtimba studies
  29. Incidence of Potential Malaria Vaccine Trial Endpoints in Cohorts of Young Children Followed with Active or Passive Case Detection in The Kassena-Nankana District of Ghana
  30. A Case Control Study of Severe Malaria in the Kassena-Nankana District (KND) of Northern Ghana
  31. Immunological Correlates of protection against clinical malaria in a cohort of young children in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana
  32. Comparative efficacy of intramuscular Artemether and Intravenous Quinine for the Treatment of Severe malaria in the Navrongo War Memorial Hospital.
  33. Comparative Efficacy of Chloroquine, Amodiaquine and Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine for the treatment of uncomplicated plasmodium falciparum malaria in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana.
  34. An open label randomized comparative study of amodiaquine artesunate and their combination for the treatment of acute uncomplicated malaria.
  35. The Heptavalent Trial