Ghana Grant Description

Ghana has more than 320,000 people living with HIV including 180,000 women and 25,000 are children under the age of 15. There are an estimated 170,000 children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

Ghana's results: (RED) money that flows to Ghana supports Global Fund financed programs which have already:

• Enabled 371,000 people to complete HIV testing and counseling process.
• Trained 9991 HIV testing counselor and 879 prevention of mother-to-child counselors.
• Enabled testing and counseling of over 109,000 pregnant women.
• Established and supported 407 centers to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
• Provided preventative antiretroviral treatment to over 3,250 HIV-positive pregnant women to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
• Provided antiretroviral combination therapy (ART) to over 11,500 people.
• Prepared 80 laboratories with the capacity to monitor ART.
• Trained 383 service deliveries in clinical management if of people living with HIV.
• Reached over 1,900 HIV positive patients with home based care..

Your (RED) Dollars at Work in Ghana