Patricia Akweongo

Determining Factors Influencing Family Planning Practices among Adolescents in the Tema Central Sub-Metropolis, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

Douglas Adu-Fokuo, Albert Opoku & Patricia Akweongo · International Journal of Research and Reports in Gynaecology · 2021

Introduction: The public health importance of family planning is well documented, some of which include averting the number of unintended pregnancies, reducing maternal and child mortality and number of abortion episodes among women. Adolescents are mostly vulnerable to peculiar...

Open access Research Article

Bacterial Meningitis: A Review in the Upper East Region of Ghana 2010-2014

Joseph K. L. Opare, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, John Kofi Odoom, Edwin Afari, Abraham Oduro, Baba Awuni, Dorcas Kyeiwa Asante, Olivia Serwaa Opare & Patricia Akweongo · International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health · 2015

Introduction: Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and the spinal cord. It can cause severe brain damage and is fatal in 50% of cases if untreated. The Upper East Region (UER) of Ghana recorded 70 case-patients in 2014 with a case fat...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IJTDH/2015/19398