For instance, the first AIDS case diagnosed in Ghana was in March 1986 (AboagyeSarfo,
Cross et al. 2010), five years after HIV was first found globally by the United
States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. By the end of 2004 a total of
440,000 people were found to be infected with the virus in Ghana. The majority of
these cases were in the eastern region, which has the highest prevalence when
compared to the northern region, which has the lowest rate of incidence (AboagyeSarfo,
Cross et al. 2010).