LINK ART's TO CHPS

PRESS RELEASED, 1st December 2017



Observing this year's World Aids Day With  the theme; Right to Health, the Divine Mother and Child Foundation has called on policy makers to link ART (Anti Retroviral Therapy) centers to CHPS (Community-Based Health Planning and Services) for progress in ART adherence.

 In his state addressing the press, Mr. Owurani Charles Oduro (programs manager) said  linking ART centers to CHPS will ensure progress in ART adherence in the country.


Despite improved and highly successful programmatic coverage with ART, significant numbers of adults and children drop out of care at various points along the treatment pathway and treatment gains fail to reach sufficient numbers of children and adolescents.

It is essential to deal with reasons why people drop out of treatment plan, since retention on ART and ensuring adherence to treatment are important  determinants of successful long-term outcomes.


Loss to follow-up and long distance to ART centers can negatively impacts on the immunological benefit of ART and increases AIDS-related morbidity, mortality, and hospitalizations.

Loss to follow-up in patients receiving ART can result in serious consequences, such as discontinuation of treatment, drug toxicity, treatment failure due to poor adherence, and drug resistance; this results in an increased risk of mortality.


The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that all UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030.

 This includes financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.


?We therefore appeal to policy makers and stakeholders to ensure strong linkage of ART centers to CHPS for prompt and adequate follow-up to Persons? Living with HIV to improve adherence to treatment for a successful long-term outcome?.

The DMAC foundation also believes that the use of community health nurses and volunteers at the community level will ensure all persons living with HIV  Will have access to treatments and to ensure we achieve the 90-90-90 agenda in Ghana


Leave no one behind
Everybody counts

Media contact:
Owurani Charles Oduro
(Programs Manager - DMAC Foundation)
Mobile: +233 50 398 4128
 _www.dmacfoundation.org_


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