SEMINAR ON HIV/AIDS IN GHANA

A one-day seminar on HIV/AIDS in Ghana will be held at the Chancery, Ghana High Commission, 13 Belgrave Square, SW1X 8PN on Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 5.00pm prompt.

The theme for the seminar, being organised by the Homecoming Steering Committee (UK and Ireland) in collaboration with the Ghana High Commission, London is ?What needs to be done to arrest the high incidence of HIV/AIDS in Ghana??

The seminar is aimed at sensitising the Ghanaian community in the UK on the magnitude of the AIDS scourge.

The programme, which will be facilitated by Rev. Adu Gyamfi, chairman of the Committee and Mr Owusu Ansah Boafo, a Medical Sociologist, will also field presentations from Dr Tubonye C. Harry, a Consultant in HIV/AIDS medicine, Mrs Mary Owusu of the Paediatric unit of the St. Georges Hospital in London and Ms Victoria Manford, a Ghanaian consultant in the UK.

Rev. Adu Gyamfi told a press briefing that the seminar would, among other things, deliberate on measures being pursued by the Government to combat the AIDS scourge and ways of mobilising financial and material support of Ghanaian residents in the UK to supplement Government efforts in the fight against the disease.