The Ghana AIDS Commission has announced the distribution of over 200,000 HIV/AIDS Self-test kits nationwide.
This initiative follows the recent launch of the HIV/AIDS Self-test on July 19 by the government, facilitated through the Ministry of Health.
The purpose is to empower the public to conveniently check their status within the comfort of their homes or any location of their choice.
Dr. Kyeremeh Atuahene, the Director-General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, shared that plans are already in motion to provide training to local pharmacists on the distribution and proper use of the test kit.
He mentioned that even before the pilot launch, some pharmacy shops were already selling self-test kits, as they have been available for several years.
As the expansion program progresses, the goal is to involve pharmacists in the distribution process, recruiting and training them to offer the program’s test kits to the public.
“As far as pharmacists are concerned, in fact before we started the pilot, some pharmacy shops were already selling self-test kits. Because self-test kits have been available since before this decade, so people have been selling them.”
“We hope that in the expansion programme, pharmacists will also be recruited and trained to distribute some of the programme’s test kits,” he noted.