Tag Archives: HIV/AIDS

The Medical Superintendent of Kpandai District Hospital in the Northern Regional , Dr Abdul Aziz, has disclosed that HIV/AIDS is on rise in the district. Speaking in an interview with Adom News reporter, Odehyeba Owusu Job, Dr Aziz expressed worry over the increasing number of HIV infections received in the …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has given the assurance that government willoperationalise the National HIV and AIDS Fund to increase domestic resource mobilisation to improve care. The President gave the assurance following calls to re-activate the Fund to increase domestic resource mobilisation due to the recent upsurge in new …

The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah has urged the public to end stigma against HIV AIDS patients.   The minister has appealed to the public to eliminate barriers preventing HIV AIDS patients from accessing quality health care.   “It is the responsibility of all to help reduce the negative …

HIV/AIDS has killed up to 40.1 million people and infected 84.2 million over the past 40 years. Up till now there is still no cure for the epidemic, there are many effective HIV prevention, treatment and care options that can enhance the quality of life. In the year 2010, new …

Doreen Moraa Moracha, an HIV/AIDS activist and social media influencer, posted on her social media accounts to mark World AIDS Day. Moracha Doreen was born with HIV, but she didn’t find out about it until she was 13. Her parents knew about it when she was eight, but they didn’t …

Dr Kyeremeh Atuahene, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, has warned Ghanaians against engaging in transactional sex. Speaking to Joy FM, the AIDS Commission boss said Ghana’s target of achieving zero HIV infections by 2030 is achievable, but only if the youth of the country desist from transactional and commercial …

The presidential advisor on HIV/Aids, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, has indicated that the country will soon have to deal with an HIV/AIDS epidemic if care is not taken. According to her, an HIV/AIDS epidemic might be eminent because even though the number of cases of the disease keeps rising and …

The Chief Executive Officer of the Awareness Healthcare Centre in Ghana, Dr. Samuel Ato Duncan, has revealed that some influential people in the country and some Scientists want him dead for discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS. According to him, people are hunting him to stop him from making public the …

The chief of Menekpo, under Manya Krobo traditional area in Krobo Odumase, has debunked rumours about Krobo being the hotspot for HIV/AIDS in the Eastern region and Ghana at large. According to Nene Teye Adjiso III, people across the region visit health facilities within the Krobo district to test their …

A 19-year-old boy, Gideon Quansah a native of Abura Patoako in Abura Aseibu Kwamankese District in the Central Region, who has been diagnosed with HIV Positive has been left to his own fate by his family. The boy who’s believed to have contracted the disease from his mother who died …