Director-General of the Ghana Aids Commission Mr. Steve Gyeremeh Atuahene has revealed that older men preferably called ‘sugar daddies’ are intentionally infecting young girls in the country with HIV.
According to him, an intensified advocacy and campaign as new statistics show that the rate of new HIV/AIDS infections among minors is increasing.
Speaking in an interview with an Accra-based radio station, Mr. Gyeremehaverred that 5,211 young people between the ages of 15-24 years contracted the virus with, 4,325 being females and 866 being males.
He explained that new infections among children from 0-14 years were 3,596.
Also, it was discovered that older men are infecting young girls by deliberately not protecting themselves.
He said this major problem, and we must adopt measures to address the rate of infections in this age bracket.
He advised older men to stop infection with young girls with the virus.
Adding that persons who are infected are also not taking their anti-retroviral drugs as required by their doctors.
”The older men sleeping with the young girls are not wearing condoms. They are not using protection. They are deliberately sleeping with these young girls and infecting them,” he asserted.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
