… to state lawyers being appointed to represent him when he collapsed, prompting prison guards to rush him to hospital. “He is unconscious, unable to speak, and unresponsive even to a pain stimulus,” his wife, Winnie Byanyima, who heads the UN’s agency tackling HIV and Aids (UNAids …
… l HIV-related funding before restoring life-saving HIV work days later, although most prevention efforts were curtailed. “The international community has entered a period of profound political and financial upheaval that threatens decades of hard-won gains against HIV,” UNAIDS …
… Through joint programmes led by agencies such as UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO and others, the United Nations in Ghana continues to support the delivery of accessible, equitable and sustainable social services. …
President John Dramani Mahama has held separate talks with the Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima, and the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), Joy Phumaphi, on strengthening public health systems across Africa. …
… The delegation included UN Under-Secretary-General and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, alongside Joy Phumaphi, Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA). …
… The programme also includes a meeting with Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and participation in a joint reception hosted with the Executive Director of UNAIDS. …
… This development, he said, would threaten Ghana’s progress towards achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets, which aim to ensure that 95% of people living with HIV are diagnosed, 95% t are on treatment, and 95% achieve viral suppression. …
The Ghana AIDS Commission has launched a nationwide training programme to improve HIV data collection, analysis and reporting at community level among civil society organisations and partners. The initiative aims to strengthen data quality and reliability to guide policy decisions and measure progress towards ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.
The Ghana AIDS Commission has launched a nationwide training programme to improve HIV data collection, analysis and reporting at community level among civil society organisations and partners. The initiative aims to strengthen data quality and reliability to guide policy decisions and measure progress towards ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.
HIV stigma risks derailing Ghana's 2030 target to end HIV as a public health threat, as negative attitudes and discrimination discourage people from testing, seeking treatment, and remaining in care, according to AIDS Healthcare Foundation Ghana's Country Programme Manager.
Kizza Besigye, a 70-year-old Ugandan opposition politician, collapsed unconscious during his treason trial in Kampala and was admitted to an intensive care unit. His wife reported he is unconscious and unresponsive; Besigye has been detained since November 2024 and faces capital charges of plotting to overthrow President Museveni.
Global HIV funding fell by 18% to $7.3 billion in 2025, the lowest level in nearly two decades, according to UNAIDS, which warned that without renewed commitment the world risks reversing progress that has driven new infections and AIDS-related deaths to their lowest level in over 30 years.
Ghana is hosting an African Union Extraordinary Summit on Health on July 21–22, 2026, focused on ending AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030, reducing maternal deaths, and addressing communicable and non-communicable diseases across the continent. The United Nations supports the initiative and frames health as foundational to sustainable development and social justice.
Around 77,000 fewer children worldwide received U.S.-supported HIV treatment in the year to October 2025 than in the previous fiscal year, according to a study that attributed the decline to Trump administration cuts and changes to foreign aid. The analysis found U.S.-supported pediatric HIV treatment fell by around 14% year-on-year, though the U.S. State Department disputed the methodology and said the decline reflects the program's success in preventing new infections.
President Mahama held talks with UNAIDS and African Leaders Malaria Alliance leaders on strengthening African public health systems. He outlined the Accra Reset initiative, aimed at enabling African countries to produce their own vaccines and advance healthcare self-reliance, and highlighted Ghana's Free Primary Healthcare programme providing free basic services at CHPS compounds and polyclinics.
President Mahama hosted UN and African health officials at Jubilee House to discuss public health cooperation, immunisation, HIV/AIDS, and malaria across Africa. He briefed them on Ghana's Accra Reset initiative, local vaccine production ambitions, and the launch of a Free Primary Health Care programme aimed at Universal Health Coverage.
The United Nations Population Fund Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Dr Sennen Hounton, has arrived in Ghana for a five-day official visit (19–23 July 2026) combining bilateral engagements with participation in the African Union Extraordinary Health Summit in Accra. The visit aims to strengthen collaboration on reproductive health, gender equality, youth empowerment and universal health coverage.
Ghana risks a nationwide shortage of HIV testing kits—both oral and blood-based—by the end of July, which could disrupt early diagnosis and treatment programmes. The Ghana HIV and AIDS Network warns that without urgent intervention, the shortage could delay diagnosis, restrict access to antiretroviral therapy, and jeopardise progress toward global UNAIDS targets.