Ghanaian NGO To Help People Living With HIV, TB Receive Treatment

The Ghanaian nongovernmental organization Allies in Development Partners, which offers care and support services to people living with HIV/AIDS in the country, recently announced that it will begin training coordinators to help HIV-positive people with tuberculosis access treatment, GNA/Ghanaweb reports. The organization will work with the Tuberculosis Control Unit of the Ghana Health Service, ADP Executive Director Emmanuel Amokwandoh said, adding that TB and HIV are "bedfellows" and need "to be treated together," according to GNA/Ghanaweb. Amokwandoh praised Catholic Relief Services for donating to ADP food items to distribute to HIV-positive people, GNA/Ghanaweb reports. However, ADP's lack of transportation has been affecting the distribution of food and drugs to patients, Amokwandoh said. "Treatment of HIV/AIDS should be continuous; any break in reaching the people with drugs affect their health," he said, adding that the organization needs financial support to acquire transport vehicles (GNA/Ghanaweb, 4/18).