UNAIDS calls on President Akufo-Addo

The Executive Director of the UNAIDS, Michael Sidibe is urging the government of Ghana to quicken steps aimed at eradicating HIV/AIDS in Ghana. Discussions around HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness were held today at the Flagstaff House when the UNAIDS team paid a courtesy call on the president. The under Secretary General at the United Nations …

The Executive Director of the UNAIDS, Michael Sidibe is urging the government of Ghana to quicken steps aimed at eradicating HIV/AIDS in Ghana.

Discussions around HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness were held today at the Flagstaff House when the UNAIDS team paid a courtesy call on the president.

The under Secretary General at the United Nations says his outfit has set the year 2030 as the target year to eliminate HIV/AIDS from the surface of the earth and Ghana certainly has a pivotal role to play in the  achievement for this agenda.

Michael Sidibe further underscored that 25% of the health burden of the world is in the African continent, sadly though he says, only 3% of the medicine consumed by the world is produced on the African continent.

He therefore pressed on the President to map up a strategy with Ghana’s private sector to take full advantage of the huge market potential that this production vacuum provides for Ghana as a country.

He is optimistic the government will take issues of HIV serious.

The president welcomed the suggestion by the Under Secretary and said his government certainly will explore the Economic space that the pharmaceutical industry provides on the African continent.

He also congratulated Mr. Sidibe for all the serious interventions and programmes he is implementing to deal with HIV/AIDS.

Written by: Wilberforce Asare

 

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