FCDO Travel Advice

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ghana

Read thoroughly the FCDO travel advise and if you wish, you may subscribe to email alerts which will notify you of any challenges. This is the same website the team use to monitor safety before travel.

LGBTQ+ travellers

Please read this article shared by our insurance providers and reference this page by the FCDO.

Mandatory Travel Clearance

Students travelling to Ghana will be required to obtain Travel Clearance from Imperial's Occupational Health team to validate the travel insurance. Please do this as soon as possible.

As part of the travel clearance, vaccines will be recommended to students based on past travel vaccine history. Students opting to obtain vaccines through Imperial will be invited to book an appointment via Occupational Health.

Please follow the weblink below to access the relevant online form in the ‘myCority’ portal.

To log in please use single sign on by clicking on the button “Login with SSO” as show in the image below, some users may not be auto enrolled in which case please register using the instructions contained in the myCority Guide.

Travel Health Form Link - TBD

Vaccine Recommendations

The Occupational Health team will advise if you need to take or update your vaccinations before travel. This is a recommendation from the team but we would encourage you to follow their advice

Vaccines booked via OH – you will need to call the OH reception desk to make an appointment. They are based in the Sherfield building. Vaccines booked through OH are charged to our account, so there’s no expenses to submit.

Vaccine expenses are covered by Imperial for all students on the module. Below pricing is based on OH fees, however vaccines booked privately may vary.

Ghana: https://travelhealthpro.org.uk/country/89/ghana

• Yellow Fever - £41 (this is mandatory for visa purposes)

• Hepatitis A (unless they have had 2 vaccines at least 6 months apart) - £23

• Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio (unless had a vaccine within last 10 years) - £9

• Typhoid vaccine (unless had a vaccine in last 3 years) - £13

• Ghana is a high risk country for malaria so all on this trip will require anti malaria tablets. They can purchase malaria tablets online without a prescription from reputable sources such as LloydsPharmacy, Dr Fox, Travelpharm. Maloff Protect (Atovaquone/Proguanil) is available without prescription over the counter from many pharmacies and you can also purchase Malarone generically as Atovaquone/Proguanil.

• Bite avoidance measures should be followed