99.3% covered, 1,200 infected: Ghana’s HIV blind spot

It is a matter of whether a test was offered early enough, whether she could afford the transport to reach the clinic, whether she trusted that her result would stay private, whether she believed the person handing it to her would treat her with dignity, and whether she could face what her partner, her mother-in-law, or her church might do if they found out.

In the same year, Ghana recorded 15,290 new HIV infections and 12,614 AIDS-related deaths, with 334,721 people living with HIV, of whom 68.

On 8 July, Dr Fred Nana Poku, Director of Technical Services at the Ghana AIDS Commission, told the country that 1,200 babies were born with HIV in 2024 through mother-to-child transmission.