AIDS Is Real Killer In Ghana With 21,000 Death Every Year – Ghana AIDS Commission Reveals

While the global community may have been bothering about Covid-19 pandemic and it’s variants, the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS is the leading cause of deaths in the Republic of Ghana.

The unfortunate trend is revealed in the statistics made available by the country’s AIDS Commission.

Annually, AIDS accounts for about 21,000 death in Ghana per statistics available, as a a post by StatsGH on Twitter reveals that there’s been an average of 21,000 deaths annually over the last five years.

According to the Ghana AIDS Commission, the number of people living with HIV in Ghana is 346,000 and out of the 346,000 people living with HIV in Ghana, it’s estimated that more 245,000 are on antiretroviral treatment.