HIV and AIDS: Are we really winning the war?

Vicky Wireko Reality Zone Oct - 21 - 2015 , 10:15

I was quite disappointed to read from the Daily Graphic’s issue of September 28, 2015, that 54 students from the Tema metropolis had tested positive for HIV.

For some time now I was under the impression that the paucity on the airwaves with HIV-AIDS education meant that at least with the infection rate, we were out of the woods and therefore there was no need to keep drumming it in people’s ears. But we are not: Are we?

45 HIV positive cases

At an outreach programme organised by the Tema Metro Office of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and GIZ, the Metropolitan Director of Health Services disclosed that 54 students between 14 and 19 years tested positive for HIV in the Tema metropolis between January and September this year. According to the director, 13 others aged 13 to 19 also tested positive for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and have since been put on counselling and treatment.

What one does not know is