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 […]
Statistics from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) indicate that 13,802 pregnant women contracted Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2018. This represents 1.6% of the 864,266 pregnant women who were tested for the disease. 48% HIV-exposed infants screened As at September 2018, Ghana had screened 48% of all HIV-exposed infants (HEI), with 5% being HIV positive. […]
A National Democratic Congress [NDC] flagbearer hopeful and a 2nd Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, is advocating for presidential and parliamentary candidates to be tested for HIV/AIDS as part of their qualification processes. This, he says will raise awareness on the need for persons to get tested and help take away the stigma associated […]
