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??GHANA - Country Profile
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Updated: Feb 2005?? |
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National Strategic Framework
Status
Completed. (Period 2001-2005)
National policies
- 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:
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ActionAid Ghana
P.O. Box AN19083
Accra-North, Ghana
Tel: +233 21 224 788
Fax: +233 21 764 930
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
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: [email protected] / [email protected]
· Information; education; information provision; organisational support.
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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
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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.
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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: [email protected]
· 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: [email protected]
· 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: [email protected]
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.
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Mother Africa Association and Child Care Organisation (MACCO)
Contact person: Frank Ablorh
Tel: +233 21 716 951
Fax: +233 21 712 414
Email: [email protected]
· 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: [email protected] / [email protected]
· Education; prevention; information; work in partnership with local organisations with the view to building and strengthening their capacity in prevention work.
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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
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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: [email protected]
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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: [email protected]
· 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: [email protected] / [email protected]
· 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".
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| Country Indicators |
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| Demographic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Total population (thousands) |
2004 |
21,377 |
UN population division database |
| Female population aged 15-24 (thousands) |
2004 |
2314 |
UN population division database |
| Population aged 15-49 (thousands) |
2004 |
10697 |
UN population division database |
| Annual population growth rate (%) |
1992-2002 |
2.4 |
UN population division database |
| % of urban population |
2003 |
45.1 |
UN population division database |
| Average annual growth rate of urban population |
2000-2005 |
3.22 |
UN population division database |
| Crude birth rate (births per 1,000 pop.) |
2004 |
31.2 |
UN population division database |
| Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 pop.) |
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9.9 |
UN population division database |
| Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) |
2000 |
540 |
WHO (WHR2004)/UNICEF |
| Life expectancy at birth (years) |
2002 |
57.6 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total fertility rate |
2002 |
4.2 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
62 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Under 5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) |
2000 |
105 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
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For consistency reasons the data used in the above table are taken from official UN publications
| Socio-economic data |
Year |
Estimate |
Source |
| Gross national income, ppp, per capita (Int.$) |
2002 |
2000 |
UN population division database |
| Gross domestic product, per capita % growth |
2001-2002 |
2.6 |
World Bank |
| Per capita total expenditure on health (Int.$) |
2001 |
60 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| General government expenditure on health as %of total expenditure on health |
2001 |
59.6 |
World Health Report 2004, WHO |
| Total adult illiteracy rate |
2000 |
28.4 |
UNESCO |
| Adult male illiteracy rate |
2000 |
19.7 |
UNESCO |
| Adult female illiteracy rate |
2000 |
36.8 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, male |
2000/2001 |
84 |
UNESCO |
| Gross primary school enrolment ratio, female |
1994 |
76 |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, male |
1991 |
40 |
UNESCO |
| Gross secondary school enrolment ratio, female |
1991 |
32 |
UNESCO |
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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.
Email: [email protected]
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| Epidemiological Fact Sheet |
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Estimated number of adults and children
living with HIV/AIDS, end of 2003
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| These estimates include all people with HIV
infection, whether or not they have developed symptoms of
AIDS, alive at the end of 2003: |
| Adults and children |
350,000 |
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| Adults (15-49) |
320,000 |
Adult rate(%) 3.1 |
| Women (15-49) |
180,000 |
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| Children (0-15) |
24,000 |
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Estimated number of deaths due to AIDS
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| Estimated number of adults and children who died of AIDS during 2003: |
| Deaths in 2003 |
30,000 |
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Estimated number of orphans
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| Estimated number of children who have lost their mother or father or both parents to AIDS and who were alive and under age 17 at the end of 2003: |
| Current living orphans |
170,000 |
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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.
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