Ghana’s First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has reiterated that the country is committed to ending the AIDS epidemic by the year 2030.

The OAFLA meeting is on the theme: “Global Partnership towards harnessing the demographic dividend in Africa”.

According to her, Ghana is currently implementing the ‘Treat All and Task Sharing Policy’ targeted at ending AIDS by 2030.

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She said that the policy emphasizes “strengthening of our health systems as well as creating synergies and partnerships among government institutions, development partners, private sector, civil society organizations and faith-based organizations to deal with HIV/AIDS”.

Mrs Akufo-Addo believed that Ghana can only achieve a healthy population if it strengthens its health systems adding that “strengthening the health systems will have a ripple effect on the HIV response.”

Civil society groups recently indicated that the rate of HIV infection among people in Ghana was increasing.

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This was attributed to the inadequate funding from the government and reduced donor support.

In 2000, 3.4% of the population were said to be infected with the disease.

But the figure reduced to 1.4% in 2014 following a massive campaign.

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Currently, 2.4% of the population are said to be infected with the viral disease with many having fears that this may threaten the country’s move towards achieving the 2016-2020 national HIV strategic plan.