Young Peoples and Human Rights Ghana

The Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) said Wednesday that it had initiated a series of focused surveillance activities for HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), as it had envisaged such risks as a result of the increase in gay activities in the country. The surveillance is directed among the Most at Risk Populations (MARPS). A statement issued in Accra by Dr Angela El-Adas, Director-General of the GAC in reaction to reports of gay activities, said the MSM (Men having Sex with Men) situation in Ghana was an issue that we cannot not run away from. “The work of the reported NGO that registered up to 8,000 MSM, if true, may just be a microcosm of the real situation on the ground. Activities of MSM may predispose some of them and their other heterosexual partners to HIV. It is important therefore to have the requisite data for planning HIV prevention and treatment interventions.” The commission said a study was being implemented by GAC as part of a broader initiative to conduct HIV and

The One Show on VIASAT 1 this week began on a very thought provocative note as it dissected the very taboo subject of homosexuality and its impact on the Ghanaian society. In a move that perhaps will find a place in the annals of television history in Ghana, the show’s producers succeeded in bringing audience closer to the ins and outs of the subject and what it portends for the current generation. In a shocking television first, a reformed homosexual Alhassan Baba Mamudu came under a good number of questioning from host PY Addo Boateng who sought to find out what must have contributed to his past experience as a gay. Mamudu who said he comes from an active Christian upbringing, told PY his encounter with the practice began in the Senior High School he attended which happened to be an all Boys Boarding School, whose name he declined to mention. According to him he was involved in this act for quite some time before a divine intervention from came to his rescue. “When you are into such