Ghana: Don't Trample On the Right of People Living With HIV - VR Committee of the Ghana Aids C'ssion

Ho — THE newly-inaugurated Volta Regional Committee of the Ghana AIDS Commission has warned that any unruly member of the public who antagonises or tramples on the rights of people living with HIV, will suffer swift consequences under the law.

The Regional Minister, Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa who is chairman of the nine-member commission said that stigma and discrimination towards people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS are still pervasive in the region and that could undermine HIV testing service in the in the various communities.

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