The Western Regional Technical Coordinator of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Antonio Francis, has announced that the Ghana AIDS Commission’s 2025 HIV projected figures released this year indicates that about 23,000 people are currently living with HIV in the Western Region.
Speaking to Channel One TV at an HIV/AIDS Stakeholders Review Meeting, he said, “Per the 2025 HIV estimates and projections which were done by the Ghana AIDS Commission and the report came out this year, we can say that for the Western Region, we have roughly 23,000 plus people that we estimate are living with the virus in the region.”
He stressed that an estimate of three new infections are recorded every day, cautioning that that failure to reduce new HIV infections through a combination of effective treatment and multiple prevention measures could undermine Ghana’s goal of ending AIDS by 2030.
“If you look at the rate of new infections, it has reduced slightly from somewhere around 992 persons newly infected with HIV. What this means is that, if you should do a further breakdown, it means that every day we are getting at least three people getting infected in the region,” he added.
 By Florence Adom AsamoahÂ