Well being Information of Saturday, 22 June 2024
Supply: kasapafmonline.com
2024-06-22
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The Ghana AIDS Fee has expressed concern over the disturbing statistics, as its 2023 Nationwide HIV Report revealed that an estimated 50 persons are contaminated daily in Ghana.Moreover, greater than 218,000 individuals contaminated have no idea their standing.Presently, there are greater than 152,000 individuals on anti-retroviral remedy (ART medicine), and of this quantity, 36,000 are male adults, 109,000 are feminine adults, and 5,000 are kids.These numbers run the danger of jeopardizing the Fee’s and its companions’ intention to attain an epidemic-free nation.However extra worrying is the projection in Accra, pointing to individuals between the ages of 15 and 49 who’re economically energetic, representing the majority variety of infections.The Nationwide Grownup HIV prevalence for 2023 is estimated at 1.53%, with the variety of individuals residing with HIV estimated at 334,095, which is made up of 316,545 adults (94.7%) and 17,550 kids (5.3%).The HIV Adults aged between 15 to 49 incident price in 2023 is estimated at 0.09% with 17,774 estimated new infections (90.4% adults and 9.6% kids) and 12,480 AIDS deaths.