Ghana is about 70 per cent deficient in the supply of anti-retroviral drugs to the 230,000 people living with HIV in the country. Dr. Angela El-Adas, Acting Director General of Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), who said this in Accra on Monday, added that "Currently treatment cover about 37 per cent of the people living with HIV".
She was addressing participants at the organisational and capacity development workshop for the Regional HIV Network of Military Forces in West and Central Africa.
The five-day workshop will validate results and analyse context and constrains of the network, set options to develop the network, expand the organizational identity and finalise action and work plan framework for 2010. Dr. El-Adas said by the end of 2010, access to anti-retroviral drugs would have increased from 36 per cent to 48 per cent.
A three-day workshop to assess the contribution of the private sector in health care delivery in Ghana, began in Accra on Monday.
The workshop, a follow-up to a similar one organised in July this year, would discuss findings and identify information gaps in the on-going assessment of the sector to help in mapping out a strategy to improve the involvement of the private sector in health. It would also identify factors that created and sustained the role of the private sector in health care delivery, provide information for decision making and facilitate productive engagement between the public and private sector.