The Christian Children’s Fund of Canada (CCFC), a non-governmental organization operating in the country, has renewed its commitment to working with children and communities impacted by HIV and AIDS with the objective of reducing new infections

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The Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital recorded 1,496 HIV/AIDS cases at the hospital for the past three years while 332 people acquired the disease last year. The victims were diagnosed through Counseling and Testing (CT) and Prevention from Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) for pregnant women

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The Western Region observed this year’s World AIDS Day on Thursday at the Takoradi Polytechnic with a call on the public to refrain from stigmatization and discrimination against People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWWHA) to stop its spread

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Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) is still rife in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Mrs Rebecca Antwi-Baffuor, Focal Person for the Oguaa Sub-Committee on HIV and AIDS, observed on Thursday

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There are only seven public medical doctors currently working in the Upper West Region instead the required of 37 doctors needed to provide adequate quality healthcare to the people

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The Minister of Health has inaugurated a $250,000 new Research Centre at the University of Ghana (UG) to enable scientists to conduct research and share knowledge leading to infectious disease control solutions in West Africa

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The Ghana Network of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS (NAP+ GHANA) on Thursday joined persons living with HIV (PLHIV) globally to commemorate 2011 World AIDS Day. “We stand united with our fellow PLHIV and the global HIV and AIDS community by fully supporting the vision of ‘Getting to Zero’,” Charity Owusu Danso, Vice President of NAP+ GHANA said

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The Food and Drugs Board (FDB) on Thursday warned the public to desist from buying products displayed on the sun because the sunlight alters the effects of those products, thus posing health hazards to consumers

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Some 149 Community-Based Agents (CBAs) have been trained in the nine sub-districts of the Kwaebibirem District as a strategy by the Ministry of Health and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to get sick children treated quickly to prevent deaths

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Dr Frank Nyonator, Acting Director-General of Ghana Health Service, on Wednesday said Ghana was committed to addressing the unmet needs of Family Planning (FP) to attain the Millennium Development Goals 4&5

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As the world celebrates World AIDS Day today Thursday December 1, there is encouraging news from medical researchers. Thirty years, 30 million deaths and 60 million infections after HIV appeared, medical researchers now have the tools to halt the deadly epidemic

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To mark the World AIDS Day, the British Government has pledged five million Pounds for the purchase of female condoms to enhance reproductive health needs of women

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Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday announced that government had committed GHc150 million to the fight for drastic reduction of HIV/AIDS infections from 2011 to 2015

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Mrs. Juliet Magdalene Acquah, an expert in save motherhood skills, has designed and manufactured two new modernized tools to aid comfortable delivery positions during labour

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The Eastern Regional Coordinator of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP), Dr Sampson B. Ofori, has called on Ghanaians not to lose their guard but to sustain the tempo in the fight against HIV/AIDS. He observed that, with the reduction in the HIV prevalence rate, it appeared complacency was setting in by the reduction in funding of HIV prevention activities

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Goldfields Ghana Limited Tarkwa mine has organized a free medical outreach programme for communities in its catchments area. People in the beneficiary communities, Samahu, Huniso, Pepesa, Abekoase, Tebe and Awudua all in the Prestea Huni/Valley District, were screened for high blood pressure, sugar level, weight, diabetes and HIV

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