Numerous HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns are being waged in Ghana, yet the disease remains prevalent among young people, according to Emmanuel Kusi Yeboah, health ministries director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Ghana.
Numerous HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns are being waged in Ghana, yet the disease remains prevalent among young people, according to Emmanuel Kusi Yeboah, health ministries director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Ghana.
“It is rather strange that the very youth who seem to know more about the disease are the very people who are mostly affected,” Yeboah said. He also stressed the need to continuously sensitize youth about HIV/AIDS so they might change their attitude toward sex. Yeboah made his comments at the official launch of the church’s HIV/AIDS Response Fund—GARFUND—in Kumasi.
The Adventist Hospital at Kwadaso in Kumasi recorded 353 HIV/AIDS cases during 2003, while 760 were tested, Yeboah said. The Ghana AIDS Foundation (GAF) is supportive of the GARFUND initiative.
GAF released 40 million cedis [approximately US$4,550] to support the activities of the Adventist Church in combating the HIV/AIDS scourge.
