The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has urged stakeholders to ensure that compassion and fellow feeling are employed in all measures evolved in the fight against the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
This is contained in a press release dated December 1, 2025.
“On the occasion of this year’s World AIDS Day, we reiterate the need for all stakeholders to approach the fight against the disease with love, compassion and fellow feeling,” the CCG said in the statement signed by its General Secretary, Dr Cyril Fayose.
This year’s World AIDS Day is on the theme: “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.”
The Council noted that, “As an ecumenical council concerned with the holistic welfare of our people, we call on the global community to reignite our collective response to the fight against the disease which has been with us for the past four decades. The Council wishes to stress the importance of doing away with all forms of stigma and disruptions in our coordinated response to dealing with this still deadly disease.”
According to Dr Fayose, “We should not be naïve to think that AIDS was deadly in the past and not now; we should therefore intensify awareness so that all our citizenry, especially the youth and health workers take the preventive protocols very seriously.
The CCG sees chastity, moral uprightness and faithfulness in our sexual relationships, as some of the time-tested preventive measures to curtail the spread of the disease.”
The CCG further called for prayer for all persons living with the disease.
“We also call on our member churches, Local Councils of Churches (LCCs), ecumenical and interfaith partners, to use their established networks to promote the wellbeing of all persons living with the disease by supporting them in ways that will make them live long and happily, to contribute their quota to nation building,” the Council said.
