There have been less condoms in Ghana since October, sources say stock is sitting in a port and unmoving. The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) was one of the country’s biggest procurers of contraceptives, but funding is gone and nothing has replaced it.
The result is an already increasing number of teenage pregnancies and adolescent sexually transmitted infections, those working on the ground in the country say. “It’s too early for the data, but there is an uptick and more people are presenting with HIV infections too,” Sarah Shaw, director of advocacy for the MSI Reproductive Choices group, tells The Independent.
