Ghana has set the wheels in motion for the local manufacturing of HIV commodities including condoms, test kits and anti-retroviral medications, the Ghana AIDS Commission has announced.
Plans are afoot and officials are already in talks with pharmaceutical companies in the country to commence production in earnest from next year.
The move is part of a grand domestic HIV response sustainability programme to make the country self-reliant in the wake of the recent decline in foreign funding for the disease.
Dr Kharmacelle Prosper Akanbong, the Acting Director-General of the Commission, observed that about 80 per cent of the commodities used for HIV care services were imported, making local manufacturing extremely necessary.
