The Minister of Health, Hon Joseph Yieleh Chireh has said that, from January-June 2011, 27,988 people were tested HIV positive. He said female’s form 77% of the total individuals. He made this known yesterday in Accra when his ministry had their turn of the meet the press series organized by the Ministry of Information.
According to him, 550,537 people received testing and counseling (97,157 were males and 453,380 were females), 27,988 were tested HIV positive, indicating a period prevalence of 4% among this, 77% of the total positives were females.
He added that, during the half year, a total of 7,517 people made up of 6,954 adults and 563 children were put on ART.
He further stated that, the health sector has a four strategic plan, with five broad strategic objective that include: bridge equity gaps in access to health and ensure sustainable financing arrangement that protect the poor, improve governance and strengthen efficiency and effectiveness in health service delivery, and also improve access to quality maternal. Neonatal, child and adolescent service,: intensify prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases: and lastly strengthen institutional care, including mental health services delivery.
He further stated that, measure such as providing adequate heath infrastructure and equipment that will enhance the localization of treatment, expanding coverage of CHPS, increase access to primary health care services, human resource development, private sector collaboration, review and development of health sector bill and intensify behavior change strategy especially for high risk including health life styles are some of the measures to tackle maternal and child health issues.
He hinted that, Ante natal coverage have also increased from 32.4% in 2010 to 46.0% this year “deliveries by skilled attendants have increased from 16.1% for the half year in 2010 to 27.1% for the same period in 2011, post natal coverage improved from 18.7 in 2010 to 29.5% in 2011, maternal mortality declined from 451 in 2007 to 350 in 2010 showing a significant decrease. In order to achieved the MDG 5 target by 2015 therefore reduction of maternal mortality to 185 per 100,00 death our effort need to be doubled”.
Source: The New Voice
am not shocked but rada surprised how most GH gals hate condoms amazin
don’t be obtuse. If the vast majority of those being tested are women OF COURSE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE TESTING POSITIVE WILL BE WOMEN! Maybe you should ask Ghana guys why they won’t get tested.
Guys watch out, dose of you that travel only to be sleeping around!! And of cause ladies too.
my heart is racing wif dz knda nuz…….Ghanaians, wer r we heading 2? Its amazing how u meet some grls…u try to sleep wf them without condom and they are very much OK with it……..We have turned a deaf year to the existence of this deadly disease.
GOD PLS SAVE US….hmmmmm
I am amazed at what the minister said, if 453,380 women tested against 97,157 males. Obviously the women with positive results will be more than the males. Lets not paint a bleak picture that women have a higher prevalence of HIV than men.
@yaa,exactly.
this’s sum yawa headline frm G.C a dramatic one as such towards a mere test tht was conducted.it doesnt take a scientist to figure-out a conclusion cant be taken out frm dis data to justify anything.so guyz please leave them females only .
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ALL THOSE MEN GOING TO GH TO FIND A HOUSE…Good luck to ya!
Ghanian women and men should learn how to request for condom if they know that they want to have free sex…this is very serious.
What a misleading statistic! It is not 77% of Ghanaian women that are HIV positive rather 77% of those tested to be HIV positive(27,988 ) are women. However,since about 80% of those that were being tested are women, obviously, as it follows, there will be a lot of women testing positive as compared to men because the original sample (97,157 males and 453,380 females) has an overwhelming number of women as compared to men.
The author should really present this statistic correctly . It gave me a shock when i first read this.
What is happening? Everybody has to be careful ooo…