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He said as of the end of September, 1,619,133 persons are on treatment in the country, which he noted represents a significant leap when...

Grace Amodu was 7 years old when she found out she was living with HIV. Until then she had been told to take pills daily for malaria or for headaches but she grew tired of it. Screaming and kicking she told her brother that she was going to stop taking her medicine and that she wanted answers. Her mother took her aside and explained that she was born with HIV and that the

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On March 12, 2022, 12-year-old Akosua (not her real name) was sent on an errand by her mother in Nima, a suburb of Accra. On her way home, an unknown man believed to be in his 30s asked her to buy a recharge card for him, which she did. Upon…

Youth Asked To Value Condom Use

The National AIDS and STIs Control Programme (NACP) has urged young people to value the use of condoms. This is because they are an important tool in family planning, sexual and reproductive health management. Dr Stephen Ayisi-Addo, the Programme Manager NACP, said data had shown that anytime condom distribution was…

Animal Health Ireland (AHI) has announced Dr. Liam Doyle as the new manager of its Johne’s disease Programme.

No country can solve it alone, Nguyen Minh Hieu, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs under the Ministry of Public Security said, adding coordination and cooperation between countries is needed,

“At least one child globally was infected with HIV every two minutes in 2020.”

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on July 27 to launch activities responding to World Day against Trafficking in Persons, spreading a message that preventing and fighting human trafficking is the responsibility of the whole political system and society, and that human trafficking is a global issue that needs international cooperation to deal with.