Well being Information of Saturday, 22 June 2024
Supply: kasapafmonline.com
2024-06-22
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The Ghana AIDS Fee has expressed fear over the traumatic statistics, as its 2023 Nationwide HIV Record published that an estimated 50 persons are inflamed each day in Ghana.Moreover, greater than 218,000 individuals inflamed have no idea their standing.Recently, there are greater than 152,000 other folks 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.Those numbers run the danger of jeopardizing the Fee’s and its companions’ intention to succeed in an epidemic-free nation.However extra being worried is the projection in Accra, pointing to individuals between the ages of 15 and 49 who’re economically energetic, representing the majority choice of infections.The Nationwide Grownup HIV occurrence for 2023 is estimated at 1.53%, with the choice of other folks dwelling 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 elderly between 15 to 49 incident charge 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.
