Protest From Pharmaceutical Society Of Ghana

I wish to register my protest against your headline "Pharmacists behaviour disincentive to patronage of condoms" which is false and without any basis. If there is any group of health profesionals in Ghana who are more involded in HIV/AIDS prevention then it is pharmacists. Pharmacists encourage and promote condom use all over and even go to the extent of demonstrating how to use the condom. How can the same professional put up an attitude to discourage people. Condoms are conspicuously displayed in pharmacises and you just have to point to it and you are served.

Such misguided statements aimed at tarnishing the image of the pharmacists are unacceptable. Pharmacists are readily available, very approachable and ever ready to serve the good people of this country. Currently, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) is putting together a training programme for pharmacists to set up fifty counseling centres for the purposes of offering free counselling services on HIV/AIDS in addition to the pharmaceutical services we offer. Which health professional is then much more involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and education campaigns than the pharmacists? I must conclude that such statements will not discourage us from offering high quality service to the good people of this country.

Thank you.

PETER SEGBOR
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GHANA (PSGH)

I wish to register my protest against your headline "Pharmacists behaviour disincentive to patronage of condoms" which is false and without any basis. If there is any group of health profesionals in Ghana who are more involded in HIV/AIDS prevention then it is pharmacists. Pharmacists encourage and promote condom use all over and even go to the extent of demonstrating how to use the condom. How can the same professional put up an attitude to discourage people. Condoms are conspicuously displayed in pharmacises and you just have to point to it and you are served.

Such misguided statements aimed at tarnishing the image of the pharmacists are unacceptable. Pharmacists are readily available, very approachable and ever ready to serve the good people of this country. Currently, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ghana (PSGH) is putting together a training programme for pharmacists to set up fifty counseling centres for the purposes of offering free counselling services on HIV/AIDS in addition to the pharmaceutical services we offer. Which health professional is then much more involved in HIV/AIDS prevention and education campaigns than the pharmacists? I must conclude that such statements will not discourage us from offering high quality service to the good people of this country.

Thank you.

PETER SEGBOR
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GHANA (PSGH)