Zimbabwean health minister David Parirenyatwa has reportedly challenged private manufactures in the country to produce condoms so as “to address concerns over the size of condoms imported from China”. According to NewsDay, Parirenyatwa said the move would also save on foreign currency. Parirenyatwa said this while speaking during the launch of the Zimbabwe Private-Sector HIV/Aids … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
The Ghana AIDS Commission says the prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst the country’s youth in 2017, particularly those below the age of 24, rose to about 45% nationwide. The Commission attributed the upsurge to unprotected sex as well as low knowledge of the youth about the infection. Speaking at the launch of the 2018 World AIDS … Read more
A 37 year old herbalist, Mallam Abdul Razak Mohamed, resident at Suhum in the Eastern Region, claims to have found cure for HIV and AIDS to end the pain and suffering of people infected with it. Mallam Mohamed, who walked into the Eastern Region office of the Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Ghana AID … Read more
The medical terms may have been ambiguous for the layman but the Influenza H1N1 said to have led to the demise of students at KUMACA is called Swine Flu. The Ghana Health Service has warned of an ongoing outbreak of confirmed Swine Flu (H1N1) in the country. This follows the outbreak of the same disease at … Read more
About 30 journalists from 25 West and Central African countries have undergone capacity training on a new HIV Catch-Up Plan for the region where 4.7 million people living with HIV are not receiving treatment. Dubbed “Informing the Messengers”, the regional workshop organized by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), saw the selected journalists … Read more
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Mr. Dennis Bandoh, the Regional Focal Person, who announced this, said late report to the health facilities and resort to the prayer camps for treatment, were to blame for the deaths. He was speaking at a pre-implementation meeting of an … Read more
Two hundred and seventy-five (275) people died of HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region, last year. Late reporting to the health facilities and resorting to the prayer camps for treatment were to blame for the deaths, the Regional Focal Perso, Mr. Dennis Bandoh, has revealed. He was speaking at a pre-implementation meeting of an HIV Advocacy Project in Kumasi. … Read more
Swaziland, which bears the world’s heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting access to virus-suppressing drugs, researchers said Monday. The country where about one in three adults are infected with the AIDS-causing virus, has vastly expanded public programmes to test people for HIV infection and put them … Read more
Progress in beating back the AIDS epidemic risks being eroded by a funding shortfall set to grow under Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to global health projects, experts and campaigners warned ahead of a major HIV conference. If adopted by Congress, the 2018 Trump budget could deprive some 830,000 people, mostly in Africa, from life-saving anti-AIDS … Read more
Aids deaths halve as more get drugs Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of … Read more
Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of 1.9 million in 2005 to … Read more
AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN report Thursday proclaiming “the scales have tipped”. Not only are new HIV infections and deaths declining, but more people than ever are on life-saving treatment, according to data published ahead of an … Read more
The Veterinary Services Department intends to ban the transfer of pigs following reports of an outbreak of Swine flu in parts of the country. According to the department, data available to them indicates that some pig farms in the Ashanti Region have been affected. There has also been a reported case of swine flu in … Read more
A UNAIDS report on HIV prevalence in women shows that Ghana is among countries with the highest prevalence rate in West Africa. As many as 160,000 women and girls in Ghana are living with the virus, the report said. The 2017 report titled “When women lead, change happens – women advancing the end of AIDS” … Read more
The Eastern Regional Coordinating Council (ERCC) and the Regional AIDS Committee have ordered the Centre for Awareness (COA), a food supplement marketing firm to stop all adverts on a cure for HIV/AIDS in the media. The management of COA have also been asked to use the same platform in deceiving the public that it had … Read more
Lack of financial and logistical support for PLHIV are some challenges that needs to be resolved Stigmatisation and discrimination against Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) remain the major challenge hindering fight against the disease in the Upper West Region. The act which exists in communities and Antiretroviral (ART) Facilities across the region is limiting people’s … Read more
A total of 5051 persons is confirmed to be infected with HIV virus in the Upper West region. 2453 of the number are on treatment in various health facilities in the region whilst 63 of them died of the disease as at December last year. Yakubu Dramani, Upper West Regional Technical Coordinator for the Ghana … Read more
2453 of the number are on treatment in various health facilities in the region whilst 63 of them died of the disease as at December last year. The meeting was to share the outcome of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) site visits embarked upon by the Regional Social Accountability Monitoring Committee in 2016. He said the figures … Read more