According to the statistics present, there are over 73,000 citizens in the Ashanti region that are living with the HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is a s*xually transmitted disease.
This was revealed by Nathaniel Oduro, Executive Director of ProActif Global, who believes stakeholders must increase their advocacy on HIV/AIDS and stigma.
He observes that stigmatization encourages people living with the disease to hide and avoid seeking treatment.
Mr. Oduro, on the other hand, is urging residents of the region to be cautious of their sexual partners in order to avoid contracting the disease.
“Let’s take the Ashanti region, for instance, we have a little over seventy-three thousand persons living with HIV AIDS, I mean (73,245) per the 2020 data which was released in Ashanti Region by the AIDS Commission and if these people decide not to seek treatment again because of the stigma the viral load will go up”
“Persons living with HIV in those days were seen as weak, slim and very sick but today it’s not like that. HIV no dey show face, you can’t just look at somebody because he is looking good and say he does not have AIDS, there is medication now, and you will see a beautiful lady looking good and when you have unprotected s** there could be trouble”.
He further warned the youth to engage in protected s** and also go for check up right after having unprotected s**.
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