THE Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal AIDS Committee has organised a two-day workshop on HIV-AIDS for representatives of religious groups, traditional rulers, security personnel, youth and women’s groups as well as media practitioners drawn from the municipality.
Addressing the closing ceremony, the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr George Mireku-Duker, appealed to the Ghana AIDS Commission to consider, as a matter of agency, the need to increase the support given to the municipality for HIV/AIDS activities.
He explained that the municipality had a peculiar problem with HIV/AIDS prevention due to the influx of people into the area for mining activities.
The Municipal HIV/AIDS Focal Person, Mr Joseph Adjei Sowah, appealed to the participants to share the knowledge they had acquired from the workshop with those they represented, so that together they could achieve the goals of the National Strategic Framework.
He said it was the responsibility of all and sundry to ensure that the spread of HIV/AIDS was brought under control.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the workshop, the participants pledged to play an active role in the prevention of HIV/AIDS in the municipality.
They also pledged to encourage chiefs in the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area to promote condom use to help in the prevention of the disease.
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