{"id":324678,"date":"2024-06-24T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T08:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=324678"},"modified":"2024-06-24T08:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T08:17:48","slug":"non-disclosure-of-spouses-status-mentioned-as-increasing-hiv-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/news\/non-disclosure-of-spouses-status-mentioned-as-increasing-hiv-infections\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-disclosure of spouses\u2019 status mentioned as increasing HIV infections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr Steve Kyeremeh Atuahene has partly attributed the rise in new HIV infections to individuals&#8217; reluctance to disclose their HIV status to their spouses, fearing desertion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Steve Kyeremeh Atuahene explained that the refusal of some HIV-positive persons to continue their medication is a significant factor in the spike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaids.gov.gh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana AIDS Commission<\/a>, over three hundred thousand people live with HIV in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023 the country also reported 17,774 new cases, with 11,317 being women and 6,457 men affected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Atuahene said the fear of a spouse deserting the other leads to non-disclosure of status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also highlighted the increased vulnerability of females to HIV infections compared to males. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the transmission rate from woman to man is just about 2 percent whereas it is more than 12 percent from a man to a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/health\/#google_vignette\">More stories here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr Steve Kyeremeh Atuahene has partly attributed the rise in new HIV infections to individuals&#8217; reluctance to disclose their HIV status to their spouses, fearing desertion. Dr Steve Kyeremeh Atuahene explained that the refusal of some HIV-positive persons to continue their medication is a significant factor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":324679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27,2773],"tags":[8958],"class_list":["post-324678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-health","category-trending","tag-hiv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Steve-Kyeremeh-Atuahene-Director-General-of-the-Ghana-AIDS-Commission-1.jpeg?fit=600%2C367&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324680,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324678\/revisions\/324680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}