The Regional Technical Coordinator for the Ghana AIDS commission, Mrs Olivia Graham has confirmed that according to the 2024 report on HIV/AIDS 334,700 people in the country are currently living with HIV.
The latest data also show 15,200 new infections and 12,600 AIDS-related deaths recorded in 2024.
In an interview with Alfa Ali on the orange sunrise this morning Mrs. Olivia also revealed that the Greater Accra Region has the highest number of people living with HIV standing at 3436 followed by the Ashanti Region with 2997 people living with HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Fred Adomako-Boateng, the Regional Director of Health Services, has also revealed that More than 40 per cent of people living with HIV in the Ashanti Region are currently not on treatment, posing a significant public health risk.
According to him, out of an estimated 63,159 people living with HIV in the region that should be on treatment, only 33,199, representing 52.9 per cent are currently receiving antiretroviral therapy.
New Juaben, Kwadaso and Old Tafo have been reported to be the areas with high numbers of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region
She explained that people are still not getting tested because of fear of stigma and in some cases the misconception that the virus was spiritual.
She added that in 2023 the number of people living with HIV was over 17 thousand and explained that although there has been a slight decrease, Ghana is still striving to achieve less than 3 thousand people living with the virus
Mrs. Olivia Graham also mentioned that, although the main infection mode was through sex, Ghana has recorded less than 5% of positive mothers giving birth to positive babies and urged people to get tested.
