The
Capacity Development Specialist of the government-operated National
Aids Secretariat (NAS) Wednesday revealed that 26,000 women in Sierra
Leone over the age of 15 are living with HIV, APA learnt here.
Glennis Thompson said in an interview : « there was an
increase in the number of pregnant women with HIV, » adding that « over
48,000 women tested for HIV at the Prevention from Mother-to-Child
Transmission Sites (PMCT) in 2007 and 981 were found to be positive. »
Last month, the director of NAS, Dr.
Abubakarr Kargbo, announced in Freetown, that Sierra Leone had only 1.5
percent of HIV/aids prevalence and hence among the lowest in the
sub-region.
He said : "We are among the lowest in the sub-region as
compared to South Africa which has 18 percent, Cote d’Ivoire 7.1
percent ; The Gambia, 2.4 percent and Ghana 2.3 percent etc.”
Dr. Kargbo attributed the source to the UNAIDS Annual Global HIV/AIDS epidemics report.
Kargbo said though the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the
country were recorded in 1987, there was an estimated 48,000 people
living with the disease in Sierra Leone presently.
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The
Capacity Development Specialist of the government-operated National
Aids Secretariat (NAS) Wednesday revealed that 26,000 women in Sierra
Leone over the age of 15 are living with HIV, APA learnt here.
