THE Society of Woman Against AIDS (SWAA), Ghana, with support from the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), is supporting six non-governmental organisations in the Upper West Region to carry out HIV and AIDS sensitisation programmes.
The NGOs are the Positive Action Against Poverty, Centre for Community Participation and Development, in the Wa West District, Sung-Bewira Foundation, Youth Alive, Langmaale Initiatives and Wa Diocese HIV and AIDS Programme, in Wa and Lawra respectively.
Addressing a sensitisation workshop in Wa, the National President of SWAA, Ghana, Madam Cecilia Lodonu-Senoo, said the GAC had released GH¢100,000 for the regional HIV and AIDs programme over a period of two years.
She said the target of SWAA, among others, is to organise sensitisation programmes in schools and the communities in general and also distribute condoms to the sexually active group, as well as hold counselling and voluntary testing for the people.
She said SWAA also worked in partnership with the Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service, district assemblies, traditional rulers and regional co-ordinating councils.
On some of the achievements of SWAA, she mentioned training programmes for women living with HIV and AIDS to make them self-reliant.
She also advised the NGOs to be truthful, transparent and accountable in the management of the funds.
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