Do you want to know how many HIV patients are in Ghana as of January to June 2022?
The National STIs and HIV/AIDS Control Program’s program manager estimates that 23,495 people in Ghana have tested positive for HIV in the first six months of this year (from January to June).
The figure represents 2% of the 948,094 individuals who had HIV testing between January and June 2022. They came from a variety of social groups, including males, women who were pregnant, women who were not pregnant, homosexuals, and women who worked in prostitution.
Dr. Stephen Ayisi Addo stated that this year’s statistic was too high in an interview with the Daily Graphic, despite the fact that the half-year number from last year was 25,545.
He claimed that of the persons who showed up for testing, 4% each were from the Bono, Ahafo, Eastern, and Western North areas, while 3% each were from the Ashanti and Greater Accra regions.
He said that the remaining regions varied in percentages, with some having 2% and others having 1% each.
The majority of the 23,495 persons who tested positive, according to Dr. Ayisi Addo, have now started receiving HIV medication.
Why Many HIV Cases In Ghana 2022?
With regard to the reason there are so many HIV cases in Ghana in 2022, the program manager explained that, unlike smallpox and other diseases that had been eradicated, HIV was still present in the population and that, as long as people engaged in sexual activity and were getting married, they would spread the disease to others.
He said that the new cases were the result of ignorance and complacency, saying that because public health officials were no longer raising awareness of the disease’s hazards, people mistakenly believed there was no longer an issue.
- “Some youth today don’t know HIV is there.
- Some know, but they have assumed that it’s gone.
- People are now more afraid of COVID-19 and the Marburg fever than they are of AIDS.”
