Ashanti records over 13,000 HIV cases last year

A total of 13,023 people tested positive for HIV/AIDS in the Ashanti Region alone last year, according to The Ghanaian Times.

Mrs Hariet Adjapong-Avle, Programme Officer of the Planned-Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), disclosing this at an AIDS Awareness Programme organised in Accra at the weekend, said the Eastern Region, followed with 6,939 representing 15.9 per cent and the Greater Accra Region, 6,416, accounting for 14.7 per cent.

The Western Region accounted for 3,969 (9.1 per cent), while Brong Ahafo and Central Regions recorded 3,640 and 3,061 respectively. They had 8.1 per cent and 7.0 per cent.

The rest are Upper East, 2,247, (5.2 per cent), Northern Region 1,889, (4.3 per cent), and Volta Regional 1,689 (3.9 per cent) and Upper West Region, 719 (1.6 per cent) with 86 cases unstated.