Millennium Development Goals

• The digital pathology market is fragmented and the vendors are deploying organic and inorganic growth strategies to compete in the market.
• Driver - Growing adoption of IoT infrastructure among laboratories to drive growth.
• Thus, the growing development of IoT infrastructure facilitates easy integration of digital pathology systems in laboratories and helps offer efficient healthcare services.
• The market share growth by the digital slide scanner segment will be significant for overall market growth during the forecast period.

• Thus, the growing development of IoT infrastructure facilitates easy integration of digital pathology systems in laboratories and helps offer efficient healthcare services.
• Integration of AI into digital pathology systems is the key trend impacting the global digital pathology market growth.
• Some of the key Digital Pathology Market Players:
  The digital pathology market is fragmented and the vendors are deploying organic and inorganic growth strategies to compete in the market.
• The market share growth by the digital slide scanner segment will be significant for overall market growth during the forecast period.

Ghana’s population has reached 30.8 million according to the 2021 population census. This is a 6.1 million increase from the 24.7 million recorded in 2010. Understanding population trends is important to inform development policies – but Ghana has struggled to design policies aligned to available data. Demographer Donatus Yaw Atiglo unpacks the key issues facing Ghana’s growing population.

What is the age makeup of Ghana’s population?

• Over the past five censuses, we see the structure of the population pyramid change from predominantly children under 15 to young people (aged 15-35 years).
• Overall, 60% are in the working age population.
• This suggests that there are fewer people in the dependent age groups relative to the working ages.
• But it also presents significant challenges and barriers to sustainable development, where economic and environmental resources cannot match population growth.

Which age cohorts present the biggest challenges?

• Dependent age groups (children under 15 years and old people 65 years and above) have traditionally been considered a burdensome population.
• But cashing in on the demographic dividend depends on the quality of human resources and the opportunities for the working population.
• Without skills and jobs, having a large proportion of young people could be a liability, not an asset.
• Older people have more health challenges and are therefore an increasing draw on a strained social security and health care systems.

How aligned are Ghana’s policies towards its population challenges?

• But the current mid- and long-term development policies of the country don’t consider population variables and the challenges they portend.
• It behoves governments to consider population variables to identify future opportunities and challenges and guide resource allocation towards meeting the needs of the population.
• Ghana failed to attain the main targets of the 1994 Population Policy.
• In addition, previous policies have not prepared the country to deal with the double burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

What are the key areas to focus on for development?

• When it comes to young people, it needs to make significant progress in relevant education and training, with matching employment opportunities.
• This matters for two reasons: so that fewer educated youth are unemployed or underemployed, and so that they contribute to social security.

• RALEIGH, N.C., March 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) and the SECU Foundation were first-place recipients of two statewide Credit Union National Association (CUNA) awards sponsored by the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation (CCUF) – the Louise A.
• SECU received the Louise Herring Award for demonstrating the practical application of the credit union philosophy of “People Helping People®” through the beneficial services provided by SECU*RE, Inc., the Credit Union’s wholly-owned property management Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO).
• SECU Foundation won the Dora Maxwell Award for its Mission Development Grant (MDG) program, which promotes local and community development.
• Since 2004, SECU Foundation has made a collective financial commitment of over $235 million for initiatives to benefit North Carolinians statewide.