The Bank of Ghana's HIV/AIDS Education Program
This program was launched as part of a World Bank financed Financial Institutions project. When the project was extended for two years after June 2002, the World Bank encouraged project beneficiaries to develop a HIV/AIDS education program. Ghana&#...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/05/2488395/bank-ghanas-hivaids-education-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9814 |
| Summary: | This program was launched as part of a
World Bank financed Financial Institutions project. When the
project was extended for two years after June 2002, the
World Bank encouraged project beneficiaries to develop a
HIV/AIDS education program. Ghana's central bank, the
Bank of Ghana (BOG), took up the challenge and implemented
an intensive education program beginning April 2001.
Although World Bank funding ceased in June 2002, BOG has
continued the program as a wholly BOG-funded activity. The
primary objective of the program was to prevent spread of
infection among BOG staff by providing education that would
lead to increased awareness of staff and their families
about HIV/AIDS and eventually lead to positive behavior
change. The program was implemented by a Secretariat of
staff members from BOG's health clinic working under
the guidance of a Supervisory Committee consisting of
medical professionals and representatives of staff,
management, and the government. The activities of the
program included communication, condom distribution,
voluntary testing, counseling, and treatment/care.
Communication was done through seminars, lectures, drama and
documentaries. The promotional materials used the "STOP
AIDS LOVE LIFE" slogan which is the official slogan of
the Government of Ghana's HIV/AIDS program. The program
was designed to reach out to all of BOG's 2,600 staff
and their 10,000 dependants across the country. BOG
contracted an external firm to undertake a baseline survey
which had 1178 respondents. A post-intervention survey
undertaken in June 2002 had 852 respondents. |
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