Global Fund Board meets to take key decisions in Ghana

Accra, Nov 21, GNA - With the various interventions supported by the Global Fund, Ghana has been able to bring down the HIV prevalence among pregnant women from 3.6 per cent in 2003 to 1.6 per cent for the first half of this year, Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Minister of Health has said.

"With regards to the Tuberculosis (TB) programme, significant improvement has been made from 2005 to 2009 with case identification improving from 57 per cent to 64 per cent treatment success rate from 72 per cent to 87 per cent and defaulter rates declining from 11.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent," he added.