Dormaa West District Estimates Of HIV Infections And AIDS Cases Hit 1055
Freeman Koryekpor 
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence in the Dormaa West District of the Bono Region is pegged at 1055 with a total number of 450 female having HIV while 159 of male suffering the disease.
According to the Dormaa West District Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service (GES), the current positive cases on treatment of the HIV is pegged at 610.
The Directorate indicated that the people who knows their status in the district is 99, adding that the proportion is 75, saying no death was recorded as result of the HIV epidemic in the district of the year under review.
Statistics from the Directorate revealed that a total of 19 persons were infected with the Tuberculosis (TB), adding that the deadly disease also affected 30 people in 2021.
Additionally, the Directorate indicated that 27 people had suffered from the TB in the year 2022 under review, noted that the disease killed one person in the Dorman West District.
These statistics of TB and HIV cases were revealed during when the Christian Health Association of Ghana in collaboration with the Dormaa West District Health Directorate organised workshop for various stakeholders.
The event served as a plaform to educate the participatory residents to help desist from stigmatization with people who have been affected with HIV/AIDS and TB.
The Dormaa West District HIV Health unit Coordinator, Mr Ebenezer Benegbe and the Bono Regional Director of HIV/AIDS, Mr Eric Ohene Gyan addressed the participants about the implications of the stigma in the region and the district.
They indicated their outfits commitment of working with the various stakesholders and opinion leaders to reduce HIV and TB prevalence and incidence rates.
