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A consultation on Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and HIV/AIDS has been held in Accra. The one-day session which was under the theme: "Integrating reproductive health and HIV in Ghana, the role of civil society organisations," sought to solicit broad, multi-sectoral commitment to the integration of SRH and HIV during the development of the Global Fund Round 8 proposal.

The proposal requires that Ghana, as part of its HIV/AIDS response initiative integrates SRH and HIV. It is in this regard that the Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR) yesterday organised the consultation to mobilise and sensitise Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on the integration and also to institute mechanism to monitor the content and process of the integration.

The Global Fund is an international health financing scheme and the consultation was to encourage the CSOs to submit proposals to undertake intervention activities under the programme. Some of the target groups of the programme are commercial sex workers, prisoners and prison staff and HIV patients.

The intervention areas include information, education, and communication, behaviour change communication, counselling and testing, condom promotion and community mobilisation. Mr Eric Pwadura, Communications Manager of the Ghana Aids Commission, said the commission has constituted a task force led by Mrs Virginia Ofosu-Amaah, Chairman of the National Population Council, to determine modalities for integrating reproductive health and HIV into the health delivery system.

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