Hope For Future Generation @15,  Commissions Office Building

Hope For Future Generation [HFFG], a Ghanaian based NGO, has officially commissioned its office building during the launch of its 15th Anniversary celebration in Accra.

Delivering the keynote address, Dr. Angela El Adas, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, said, HFFG has contributed greatly to the reduction of new HIV infections through community-based integrated sexual and reproductive health interventions among women and young people.

She noted that HFFG has promoted HIV and STI screening, condom use and stigma reduction, and facilitated effective referral system linking in and out of school youth as well as the general population to prevention, treatment, care and support services in 20 districts in the Central Region.

Dr. El Adas added that more than 80,000 women and young people, and persons with disability have been reached through these interventions.

He indicated that under the USAID SHARP, SHARPER and LINKAGES, HFFG has contributed immensely to strengthening support group of Persons Living with HIV [PLHIV], negotiating and increasing access to comprehensive friendly HIV and AIDS services.

According to her, HIV remains the leading cause of death among adolescent 10 to 19 years in sub-Sahara Africa and the second leading cause of death across the globe.

She emphasized that whiles new HIV infections and AIDS related death are declining in all age groups except adolescent the worst affected are girls.

In lieu of that, she noted that it is necessary to meet regional, national and international goals where Ghana has joined the commitments to achieving the 90-90-90 HIV Fast Track Targets.

This, according to Dr. Ela Adas means that by the year 2020, 90 percent of all PLHIV should know their status, 90 percent of PLHIV are on effective sustained antiretroviral treatment and 90perent have the virus suppressed so that we can remain productive and support Ghana’s development.

“more importantly, we have learnt valuable lessons from the implementation of our response under the MDGS which must be quickly applied to fast-tracking progress under the SDG. The interlinkages and synergies must be leverage now towards ending AIDS by 2030,” she posited.

She intimated that we can only reach our HIV-related targets if we continue to pursue an integrated and inter-sectoral approach leveraging SDG 1 poverty reduction, through SDG 17- strategic, sustained partnerships.

She said this at the 15^th anniversary celebration of HFFG under the them, “15 Years of Championing Equal Opportunities for Women and Children Through Sustainable Partnerships.”

Cecilia Lodonu Senoo, the Executive Director of HFFG, said, they have been a voice to the voiceless and have brought hope to the hopeless.

According to her, the NGO started with funding from Ghana AIDS Commission under the GAR Fund and Hope for African Children Initiative [HACI] and Plan Ghana which was used for program intervention in the area of HIV and vulnerable children and child survival in Central Region.

“We can confidently say that we have contributed to the realization of Ghana’s development for the past 15 years including all the gains made with the just ended SDGS,” She stated.

She said her outfit has transformed the lives of women, children and young in over 600 communities across the country.

As part of the anniversary celebrations, HFFG has lined up various activities including the unveiling of its flagship project- HopePal which seeks to target persons with disability.