We’re Worried At The Rate At Which HIV Infections Is Increasing Drastically, Aids Commission.

The supposition by numerous Ghanaians that there are no more or not many new HIV/AIDS contaminations in the nation is a long way from reality.

This is on the grounds that data from the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC) has demonstrated that, 20,068 new contaminations were recorded the nation over, with 13,616 HIV/AIDS related passings in 2019 alone.

Talking during a collective virtual media communications between Ghana Aids Commission and United Nations Program on AIDS yesterday to examine shame and victimization people living with HIV (PLHIV), Dr. Universe Ohene-Adjei, acting overseer of the Ghana AIDS Commission communicated stress over the expanding number of individuals who are uninformed of their positive status.

As per him, the proceeded with defamation and victimization people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) has to a great extent added to the spread of the infection and other related impacts because of the dread for individuals to check their status.

“From the as of late delivered 2019 public and sub public HIV gauge and projections, we understood two striking highlights. One is, more 142, 000 people in Ghana are living with HIV, yet they don’t have the foggiest idea about their HIV positive status since they have never tried. More than 46, 000 who know their HIV Status are not on life sparing medicines, that is, they are not on ARVs”, Dr. Universe Ohene-Adjei said.

He kept on saying that, defamation of people living with HIV is keeping people from testing and furthermore following up on treatment which is compounding the pandemic.

Disclosing how to deliver defamation and segregation to members, Director of Technical Services, Ghana Aids Commission, Dr. Fred Nana Poku stated, individuals in some cases the utilization the two words conversely which isn’t precise.

As per him, shame is a powerful cycle of downgrading that fundamentally ruins a person according to the next, while separation is any type of self-assertive differentiation, rejection, or limitation influencing an individual by temperance of intrinsic individual qualities or saw having a place with a specific gathering.

He noticed that information on HIV in Ghana is high, nonetheless, criticism and separation is normal. He stated, “just 8 percent of men and 14 percent of ladies were found to have tolerating mentalities towards individuals living with HIV (GDHS,2014).

Despite the fact that per the examination, 70 percent of ladies and 74 percent of men showed that they will think about a HIV-positive relative in their homes, there is low acknowledgment of administrations from HIV positive entrepreneurs, instructors, and other basic experts which is trying to the improvement of their jobs, Dr. Poku noted.

Some Heart-to-Heart (H2H) envoys who shared their dissatisfaction about the regular difficulties they experience as PLHIV in their networks, begged people in general to stop the training.

Talking during the media association, something they accentuated on was the disregard of vagrants living with HIV. They stated, Caregivers will not cook for such youngsters who inevitably lose their lives at youthful age. “We are recording a great deal of vagrants biting the dust and some of them likewise don’t desire their antiretroviral” one of the represetatives showed.

There are right now more than 200, 1000 vagrant youngsters living with HIV in Ghana.

The H2H diplomat likewise begged strict pioneers to quit requesting HIV test results before gift relationships. “My second point I need to share is about the strict pioneers that despite everything request HIV test before gift relationships, we need to tell the commission and the media that, this is turning into a major issue for our youngsters,” He said. He likewise argued for financing to run their exercises.

Demonization and separation of PHIV is dependent upon arraignment. It is revered in the 1992 constitution that an offender can look as long as 3 years detainment, or 200 punishment units or both. The GAC Act 938, 2016 gives arrangement for non separation to moderate the impact of belittling.

To deliver issues identified with disgrace, Dr Poku showed that, per the constitution, an individual living with or influenced by HIV or AIDS will appreciate the crucial common liberties and opportunities cherished in the constitution.

An individual will likewise not straightforwardly or in a roundabout way oppress a PLHIV or AIDS dependent on the genuine or saw status of that individual or of a nearby partner of that individual.

Furthermore, an individual who endures a demonstration of segregation dependent on the real or saw HIV status of that individual or of a nearby partner of that individual may initiate legitimate procedures to guarantee harms against the individual who completed that demonstration of separation.

The GAC HIV Act 938 with arrangements was passed to close holes which licenses separation as per Dr. Poku

In the wake of expounding on a portion of the tremendous impacts of slandering PLHIV, he urged casualties to be intense and report occurrences of shame and segregations to foundations, for example, GAC, Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Legal Aid and other common society Organizations.

Dr Fred Nana Poku kept on underscoring that PLHIV reserve the privilege to wellbeing, right to security and classification, Insurance benefits, right to instruction, political rights, sexual and conceptive wellbeing rights among others, subsequently no one has the option to deny them anything they should be agreeable.

He approached the media, medical care providers, networks, Individuals, just as individuals in the work place not to support the propensity for defaming and separating of PLHIV.

Despite the fact that HIV/AIDS related cases stay one of Ghana’s formative issues, Dr. Ohene-Adjei is hopeful that the new 2021-2025 HIV/AIDS public vital arrangement which has been drafted will address critical issues standing up to HIV/AIDS.

The objective of the new vital arrangement detailed, is to accomplish the 95-95-95 quick track focuses continuously 2025.

He clarified that, “I am certain you know that we are largely moving in the direction of 2030 where we won’t have any desire to consider AIDS to be a general wellbeing danger and at that point, the worldwide network is expecting that at any rate 95 percent of all people who have the HIV contamination will become acquainted with their status, 95 percent of the individuals who realize their status will be put on continue antiretroviral treatment and again the individuals who are on treatment, 95 percent of them, will likewise have viral concealment”.

Mrs Angela Trenton-Mbonde, UNAIDS nation chief urged the media to utilize its foundation to help lessen trashing in the nation. She stated, HIV/AIDS pandemic isn’t finished; in this way there is the need to increase endeavors in teaching general society to forestall the spread and vilification of people living with HIV.

“HIV plague isn’t finished and there is still a ton of work to be finished. Besides, there is still a great deal of disgrace and separation and you can assume a function to help stop this”, she charged the media.