Ghana

Overview
Populations
Data
Contacts
Resources

 

Sentinel Sites:

St Martin De Pores Hospital
Effie-Nkwanta Regional Hospital

 

 

Available in Country

3HP – 150mg Sanofi singles

YES

3HP – FDC 300mg RPT/300mg INH

NO

1HP – Singles 300mg RPT

NO

1HP – FDC 300mg RPT/300mg INH

NO

3HP included in National Guidelines

YES

3HP recommended for Children 2- 15 years

NO

Country Successes:

Great collaboration with government throughout implementation
AIG supported development of country TPT guidelines
Quick roll-out of 3HP despite late arrival of meds
AIG has pushed TPT into a routine programmatic intervention
Allocated 9000 patient courses received as @ Jan 22
74% enrolment achieved (6691/9000) btn. Apr 21 & Jun 22 (6404 – PLHIVs & 287 – HHC)
AIG supporting government with scaleup of TPT through training
TPT now introduced into all national M&E systems

 

Challenges:

Initial challenge with a mandatory x-ray screening
The absence of child friendly formulation
Weak contact tracing efforts affecting child contacts enrolment
Inadequate health staff expertise on screening child contacts for TPT

Kwame Essah The Aurum Institute kessah@auruminstitute.org
Jabina Anaman The Aurum Institute janaman@auruminstitute.org
Ministry of Health website