80 percent of prostitutes in Tema have AIDS

An Obstetrician and a Gynecologist doctor at the Tema General Hospital (TGH) disclosed on Saturday that research conducted has shown that Tema has reached six percent threshold in the HIV/AIDS cases as against 4.6 percent for that of Ghana.

Dr. Sylvia Deganus, who disclosed this at a lecture to mark the World Aids Day Celebration said 80 per cent of prostitutes in Tema have the HIV virus, adding that the TGH has blood problems, because many donors have the virus infections.

The celebration was organised by the Tema District Council of Churches and Lutheran Media Ministry under the theme, "Behaviour change, our goal."

She noted that AIDS, as an infectious disease starts silently and "you have it for life", saying 90 per cent of aids cases comes out of sex which is done silently.

Dr Deganus said the sickness in Aids comes 10 to 12 years of the person active beauty, and by the time they notice it, they die within a year. What is more serious is the fact that persons who have it in the first three months and go for test would be negative, therefore, after about one year after the first test, one should go for the second test.