Projects

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

Ongoing Project:

  1. The Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System
  2. The Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis project
  3. Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health project
  4. Identify Traditional Communication Strategies for Reaching Rural Adolescents with Reproductive Health Information: A qualitative Study
  5. Home Management of Malaria in Urban Northern Ghana: A Case Study of Bolgatanga Municipal Area.
  6. Maternal Health Study
  7. Integrating Home-Based Care for PLWA into the Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) of the Ghana Health Service
  8. Efficacy of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine alone or in combination as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy in the Kassena-Nankana district of Ghana: a randomized study.
  9. Rapid Diagnosis of Schistosoma Mansoni Using a questionnaire and Occult blood detection
  10. Using community-based volunteers to reach non-enrolled school-age children through community-directed treatment of schistosomiasis in school-age children in rural northern Ghana
  11. A Phase II/III Randomized Double-Blind Comparative Trial of Azithromycin plus Chloroquine versus Mefloquine for the Treatment of Uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in Africa
  12. Assessment of laboratory reference values and seroprevalence of antibodies against candidate malaria vaccine viral vectors in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana as part of our field characterisation for future malaria vaccine trials.
  13. Malaria Mortality and Morbidity in the First Five Years of Life in a Birth Cohort of Children in Northern Ghana.