{"id":216159,"date":"2025-12-09T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-curb-rising-hiv-infections-among-young-people-unaids-to-african-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:17:55","slug":"ghana-curb-rising-hiv-infections-among-young-people-unaids-to-african-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-curb-rising-hiv-infections-among-young-people-unaids-to-african-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Curb Rising HIV Infections Among Young People &#8211; UNAIDS to African Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS, Ms Angeli Achrekar, has called on Ghana and other African countries to urgently strengthen community-led approaches as a critical strategy to curb rising HIV infections among young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;When it comes to reaching young people, we must work with young people to reach young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Community delivery, community response and community leadership have always been at the heart of the HIV response, but they must now be fully supported, properly resourced and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS, Ms Angeli Achrekar, has called on Ghana and other African countries to urgently strengthen community-led approaches as a critical strategy to curb rising HIV infections among young people. &#8220;When it comes to reaching young people, we must work with young people to reach young people. Community delivery, community response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":216160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,8700,10637,4508,4509,6545,13327,4381,257,6321,6678,254,3052,7720],"class_list":["post-216159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-among","tag-curb","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hiv","tag-infections","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-people","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unaids","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}