The Statesman

Eastern Region records 93 AIDS cases



In a centre spread story, the Statesman reports that the Eastern Region recorded 93 cases of AIDS between January and March, this year, with the Koforidua municipality alone accounting for 32 of the cases.



The paper says Dr Sampson Ofori, the Eastern Regional Co-ordinator of the HIV/AIDS programme speaking at a seminar on: "The preventing HIV/AIDS, the role of the youth" at Koforidua, said last year?s total for the region was 402, with New Juaben alone accounting for 144.



He is said to have denied claims that the AIDS virus was intentionally developed to wipe out the Black race from the earth, but explained that the disease affects both blacks and non-Africans alike.



"The problem confronting the world now is not how the HIV virus or the AIDS disease originated, but how to prevent it from affecting more people, since it has no cure yet", he is quoted as saying.

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