According to the Ghana AIDS Commission, over 200,000 HIV/AIDS self-test kits have been given across the country.
This follows the launch of the HIV/AIDS Self-Test by the government through the Ministry of Health on Wednesday, July 19 to allow the people to check their status in the comfort of their own homes or wherever they find themselves.
Dr. Kyeremeh Atuahene, Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, told Citi News that plans to teach local pharmacists on the distribution and usage of the test kit are well underway.
“As far as pharmacists are concerned, in fact before we started the pilot, some pharmacy shops were already selling self-test kits. Because self-test kits have been available since before this decade, so people have been selling them.”
“We hope that in the expansion programme, pharmacists will also be recruited and trained to distribute some of the programme’s test kits,” he noted.
