25 January 2001
Accra, Ghana — Ghana's response to the threat posed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic should be like that of a country charging against the enemy at the battle front, an influential Ghanaian clergyman has said.
The reverend Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah, general Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, said all resources must be mobilised to fight the disease, considering that it can, within a short period, wipe off a large proportion of the population.
He was speaking at a ceremony in Accra last Christmas to honour 14 organisations for successfully incorporating reproductive health into its activities.
Rev. Aboagye-Mensah said religious organisations have an obligation to contribute to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, as it does not discriminate.
For his part, Moses Mukasa, country director of the United Nations Population Fund in Ghana, urged local organisations, communities and individuals to face the reality by believing that the pandemic is a threat to society.
Ghana has a prevalence rate of four percent and the authorities are worried that if the fight against the disease is not intensified, it could attain uncontrollable proportion.
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