Withdrawal of Global Fund Support to Ghana could be disastrous - Akobeng

Agona Swedru (C/R), Jan. 30, GNA - The Agona West Municipal HIV and AIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Focal Person, Mr Eric Akobeng has appealed to the Global Fund which funds about 70 per cent of Ghana's anti-HIV campaign activities to rescind the decision to withdraw its support by 2013. Mr Akobeng said the withdrawal of the Global Fund Support could have a telling effect on the HIV education campaign and reverse the successes so far chalked in the reduction of HIV prevalence rate in Ghana. "I do not think that the Global Fund will be happy to hear that what it has taken some years to achieve in the fight against the dreadful HIV and AIDS pandemic has to be reversed," he said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Agona Swedru.