The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has inaugurated the Metropolitan Committee of the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), with a call on members to help accelerate efforts towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Members of the Committee comprise Hon. Michael Kpakpo Allotey, Mayor of Accra, Dr Louisa A. Matey, Metro Director for Health, Mr Richard Agodzo, representative of the Network of Associations of Persons Living with HIV and Mr Samuel Owiredu, representative of a civil society organisation working on HIV and AIDS.
The rest are Rev. Reuben Gaskin, Christian group representative; Alhaji Ibrahim Kofi Bruce, representative of the Federation of Muslim and Ahmadiyya Mission, Nuumo Niikoi Amasah II, representative of the Traditional Council; Mrs Justine Ivy-Apawu, Metro Director of Education; and Ms Christiana Akonnor, Metro HIV Focal Person.
The newly sworn-in members were expected to perform, at the metropolitan level, the functions of the Ghana AIDS Commission and the Regional Coordinating Council in relation to HIV and AIDS.
The Mayor of Accra, Hon. Michael Kpakpo Allotey, in a remark, said the inauguration of the Accra Metropolitan Committee was not just a statutory requirement but a clear signal of the city’s resolve to confront HIV and AIDS decisively at the local level.
He noted that Ghana’s HIV response had evolved from a purely health-sector-led effort to a multi-sectoral, rights-based and development-oriented agenda, and indicated that the AMA fully embraced its responsibilities under the Ghana AIDS Commission Act, 2016 (Act 938).
