THE Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), with the support of the British Department For International Development (DFID), through UNAIDS, has donated computers and their accessories worth GH¢70,000 to the 10 regional co-ordinating councils (RCCs) and 21 district assemblies in the country.
Some selected ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) have also benefited from the donation, which included 44 desktop computers and three laptops. They are to be used to strengthen data collection, processing and analysis as far as the national response to HIV/AIDS in the country is concerned.
The beneficiaries included the ministries of Education and Food and Agriculture, the Department of Social Welfare, the Dangme West District Assembly and the Greater Accra Regional Co-ordinating Council.
The Director-General of the GAC, Prof Sekyi Awuku-Amoah, said the donation was made in support of the fight against the spread of HIV/AIDS through the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge on the disease.
He said it is also to support awareness creation programmes to promote healthy lifestyles and behavioural change to help reduce the current infection rate of HIV/AIDS, which stood at 24,000 a year.
Prof Awuku-Amoah said providing the agencies with the necessary logistics to have a functional database to generate accurate information in order to manage the epidemic was essential.
The HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator at the Ministry of Education, Mrs Hilda Eghan, thanked the GAC and the DFID for the donation.
She assured the commission that the computers would be used for the intended purpose to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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