Koforidua, Feb. 27, GNA – The Eastern Regional AIDs Committee is to organize HIV Counseling and Testing on May Day at the Jacksons Park to enable workers to know their statuses.
This is to help to reduce the HIV prevalence rate in the region of about 4.2 per cent, the highest in the country.
This came to light at a review and planning meeting by the Committee at Koforidua on Friday to strategize on the measures to take to help to further reduce the rate.
The region used to have a prevalence of over six per cent.
The Committee also planned to reorganize the quarterly review meeting with the district focal persons.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, the Regional HIV/AIDs Focal Person, Mr Kwame Oppong-Ntim, said during the year, the Committee would also hold meetings with organizations running various HIV/AIDs programmes in the region to monitor what they were doing.
He said, the members of the Committee would also visit institutions such as the prisons and orphanages in the region to find out what measures were being taken to help to reduce the HIV infections.
GNA
