National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed. (Period 2001-2005)

• Draft National AIDS Policy finalized and soon to be submitted to cabinet.
• Workplace HIV policy being developed.

Ministry of Health
P.O. Box M44 Accra, Ghana
Tel: +233 21 666 151
Fax: +233 21 663 810
Website: www.ghana.gov.gh

National AIDS Control Programme
Contatct person: Dr Addo
Tel: +233 21 678 458
Website: www.ghanaids.gov.gh

• This multi-sectoral body has been set up to direct, manage, coordinate, monitor and evaluate all activities in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the country. Specifically the objective of the commission is to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS by 30 percent by 2005

HIV/AIDS Organisations:

1. ActionAid Ghana
   P.O. Box AN19083
   Accra-North, Ghana
   Tel: +233 21 224 788
   Fax: +233 21 764 930
   Email: /
   Website: www.actionaidghana.org
   · Implementing and supporting HIV/AIDS programme and activities within the northern part of Ghana and neighbouring border countries of Togo and Burkina Faso.
• Care International
  Contact person: Samuel Duh
  P.O. Box C2487
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 226 001 / +228 263 610
  Fax: +233 21 764 547 / +228 264 084
  Email: /
  · Information; education; information provision; organisational support.
• Friends for Life HIV/AIDS team
  Contact Person: Bro Bernard K. Sode - Director
  N.G.O/C.B.O
  P.O. Box 9368
  Airport-Accra
  Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 504 066
  Mobile: +233 27 718 2606
• Ghana Assistance Programme
  AIDS Commision
  Contact person: Rodger Vanderpuije
  P.O. Box 7905
  Accra-North, Ghana
  Tel: +233 27 759 3037 / 024 3434 204
  Fax: +233 21 310 498
  · Advocacy on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria; care and support for orphans of HIV/AIDS patients; empowering the youth especially girls through vocational training.
• HIV/AIDS Network (GHANET)
  Contact person: John Edem Hini
  P.O. Box LG760
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 500 851 / +233 21 783 923
  Fax: +233 21 774 821 / +233 21 776 725
  Email:
  · A network of NGOs involved in AIDS programming, membership of the Network is between 400-600 through eight associations in the country. The chairman of GHANET also sits on the National AIDS Council.
• Ghana AIDS Volunteers Association
  Contact person: Mame Pokouaa
  P.O. Box 19952, Accra-North
  Tel: +233 21 246 871
  Fax: +233 21 240 087
  Email:
  · The association has been travelling to remote rural areas to create awareness and to provide home-based care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.
• GTZ Regional Aids Programme For Africa
  Contact person: Bob Verbruggen
  P.O. Box 9698 KA
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 763 941
  Fax: +233 21 763 440
  Email:
  Website: www.gtz.de
  · Technical advice and support to transnational initiatives for HIV prevention; technical and financial support to NGOs; promotion of information exchange; creation of a network of consultants; documentation centre.
• Mother Africa Association and Child Care Organisation (MACCO)
  Contact person: Frank Ablorh
  Tel: +233 21 716 951
  Fax: +233 21 712 414
  Email:
  · MACCO has been involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy and education campaigns and provides help for people living with HIV/AIDS.
• Save the Children Fund
  HIV/AIDS Prevention Programme
  Contact person: Vicky T. Okine
  P.O. Box C976, Cantonments
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 772 600/1
  Fax: +233 21 772 148
  Email: /
  · Education; prevention; information; work in partnership with local organisations with the view to building and strengthening their capacity in prevention work.
• UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS, Chair
  Contact person: Mr Moses Mukasa
  UNFPA Representative
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 701 2068 / +233 21 773 890
  Fax: +233 21 773 899 / +233 21 772 829
• UNAIDS Country Coordinator
  Contact person: Dr Warren Naamara
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 238 256 / +233 21 254 594
  Fax: +233 21 254 595
  Mobile: +233 20 201 2324
  Email:
• West Africa Project To Combat AIDS and STI
  Contact person: Dr Nzambi Khondé
  P.O. Box 710 Achimota
  Accra, Ghana
  Tel: +233 21 241 452
  Fax: +233 21 233 340
  Email:
  · Supports a number of basic health services located in underprivileged urban areas, in areas and places of prostitution and along migratory routes. Activities centre on personnel training and STD control, particularly by ensuring access to essential drugs, by providing training, and by supporting community organisations.
• Youth for Action Organisation (YAO)
  Contact person: Paul Kwasi Mensah
  P.O. Box 548, Akim Oda, Ghana
  Tel: +233 882 2665
  Email: /
  · YAO has been involved in creating awareness and encouraging prevention of HIV/AIDS among youth. Using peer group education and counselling, they are spearheading the project "Youth Against AIDS".

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications

Source: WHO/UNAIDS epidemiological fact sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2004 Update.
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Assessment of the epidemiological situation (2004)

Sentinel surveillance among women attending antenatal care clinics has been conducted on an annual basis. Since 1994, the surveillance system has included two antenatal care clinic sites (one urban area, one semi-urban) in all ten regions of the country.

In 2002, HIV prevalence was only slightly higher in the four sites in Accra (4.1%) than in the ten regional towns (3.4%) and the sites outside the regional towns (3.2%). HIV prevalence at Agomanya antenatal care clinic in the Eastern region was 7.0% in 2002, higher than at most sites elsewhere in Ghana. HIV prevalence is lowest in the three regions in the northern part of Ghana, followed by the central and southern regions.

HIV-1 is the predominant infecting agent (92.2% of cases), while 7.4% of cases are dual infections with HIV-1 and HIV-2, and only 0.5% of all infections in 2002 were with HIV-2 alone. The trend in HIV prevalence from 1994 to 2002 among all antenatal care clinic sites in Ghana shows that prevalence fluctuates with no clear pattern.

In 1999, a survey of sex workers in Tema and Accra found a HIV prevalence of 74.2% among the "seater" streetbased sex workers, and 27.2% among the home-based "roamer" sex workers, findings similar to those observed in 1997/98. In Kumasi, prevalence among sex workers was very high (82%) in 1999.