AIDS Patients Faces Discrimination Up North

PERSONS LIVING With HIV/AIDS (PLWA) in three northern
Regions of Ghana, have disclosed that little is being done to promote the welfare
of its members.
This was made known at this year’s World AIDS Day, themed: “Accelerating the
National Response Towards the MDGs”.
One of the members of PLWHA told freelance journalist networkin an interview,
“Many HIV/AIDS patients in upper east , nothern region as well as upper west regions
in the country are fast deteriorating due to the lack of
essential drugs in the various health facilities, while newly-tested
cases cannot start medication because of shortage of regent in many
laboratories.”
The Upper East Regional Executive of the National Association of
PLWHA had disclosed on a Bolgatanga-based radio station that some of the drugs
needed for the most HIV/AIDS seropositives were in short supply.
Information gathered from various interviews with persons living with the condition,
across the northern regions in the country, revealed that, Ghana was far from
achieving the theme as
PLWA members and their family were being discriminated against in the
society.
“Some people living with the disease have been crying in their rooms
and have on several occasions tried committing suicide,” another member
confirmed..