The Ghana Medical Journal is a quarterly open-access peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal from Ghana

Ghana

Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

. It is published by the Ghana Medical Association and the current editor-in-chief is David Ofori-Adjei

David Ofori-Adjei

David Ofori-Adjei is a prominent Ghananian physician and medical researcher. A graduate of the University of Ghana Medical School and University of Edinburgh he has written 58 original research papers in international journals...

. The journal is under the African Health Journals Partnership Project that is funded by the United States National Library of Medicine

United States National Library of Medicine

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 and the John E. Fogarty International Center

John E. Fogarty International Center

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. Full text of published articles are available on the journal's website and through African Journals OnLine and PubMed Central

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