More than 142,000 Ghanaians are HIV positive but don't know – AIDS C'ssion
As many as 142,000 Ghanaians are HIV positive but do not know their status, Dr Cosmos Ohene-Adjei, Acting Director of the Ghana AIDS Commission has said.
Speaking at a collaborative virtual media interaction between the Ghana AIDS Commission and the United Nations Programme on AIDS, about stigma and discrimination against persons living with HIV (PLHIV), on Friday, 4 September 2020, Dr Ohene-Adjei said: “From the recently released 2019 national and sub-national HIV estimate and projections, we realised two striking features: one is; more than 142,000 persons in Ghana are living with HIV but they do not know their HIV positive status because they have never tested”.
Also, Dr Ohene-Adjei said: “More than 46,000, who know their HIV status, are not on life-saving treatments; that is: they are not on ARVs”.
According to him, last year alone, 20,068 new infections were recorded across Ghana.
Additionally, 13,616 HIV/AIDS-related deaths occurred in the same year.
He said stigmatisation is a major factor that prevents people from testing for HIV.
Source: Classfmonline.com
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