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68,000 and Counting: The human face of HIV in Ashanti Region
Ghana’s progress towards the global 95-95-95 targets, which measure the proportion of people living with HIV who know their status, are on treatment, and are virally suppressed, stood at 70 per cent, 81 per cent and 92 per cent, respectively, suggesting steady but incomplete progress towards ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.
Ashanti Region has recorded 68,000 and counting HIV cases and still counting A total of 68,354 people are living with HIV in the Ashanti Region, according to the 2025 HIV Estimates released by the Ghana AIDS Commission, highlighting the continuing burden of the disease in the country’s most populous region outside Greater Accra.
The figure places Ashanti second only to the Greater Accra Region, which recorded 77,512 people living with HIV.
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