More Ghanaians, living with HIV are now enjoying healthier lives and living longer. Also, the rate of new HIV infections and HIV-related mortality rates is declining. The Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, who disclosed this, attributed these achievements to the combination of anti-retrovirals (ARV) with comprehensive prevention strategies. “ARVs […]
Condom use among people with multiple sexual partners in the country is low, the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) has revealed. The survey indicated that men, aged between 15 and 24 who had two or more sexual partners among those surveyed, were 24.7 per cent of those surveyed, while women within the same […]
The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) has launched the National AIDS Spending Assessment (NASA) report for 2019, 2020 and 2021, which shows that the country spent $323.7 million in the years under review. The report showed that the total HIV and AIDS-related expenditure for 2019, 2020 and 2021 stood at $88,648,568, $107,280,242 and $127,828,300, respectively. The […]
The Programmes Manager of the National AIDS/STI Control Programme, Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, has stated categorically that it is illegal for churches and religious leaders to demand HIV test from potential couples before blessing their marriage. “Love is bigger than HIV; and no church or pastor has the right to deny a potential couple the […]
A Young Kenyan man has regretted sleeping with his boss when she offered it as the only condition on which she would finance his education, but the harm has already been done, he is HIV/AIDS positive. 27-year-old Kimutai Kemboi was a gardener, and at age 22, he decided to return to school to further his […]
If reports emanating from Israel are anything to go by, then it means there is likely to be a breakthrough in the search for a cure for HIV/AIDS. A company in that country is alleging that it has taken its name from the biblical town of Sodom and Gomorrah, called Gomorrah Medical Company announced the […]
Barbara Kemigisa 32 and her 3 children are HIV positive, but that has not dampened their spirits as they have chosen to make a difference in their society. Barbara used her Facebook page to share pictures of herself and her children and the burden of swallowing medication everyday of their lives. She narrates how each […]
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has revealed that his colleague Members of Parliament ‘run away’ when they were asked to voluntarily go for the HIV/AIDS test. ‘’I even gave an example that sometime ago we went for a workshop in Koforidua and we invited the Aids Commission people to come and […]
