Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Alidu Seidu, says the assessment was not a true reflection of reality on the ground.

“The Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly vehemently protests its position on the ranking of the District League Table as being the last of all 216 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs),” Alhaji Seidu stated.

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He accused officials of the Centre for Social Policy Studies at Legon of lying about their mission to the municipality.

“We wish to state that two persons from the Centre for Social Policy Studies, Legon were here to interview some personnel on the current DACF [District Assemblies’ Common Fund] formula and proposed alternative formulae for consideration. We were never told of any assessment or indicators for ranking on the District League Table,” he added.

Alhaji Seidu has been reacting to the table which scored the Asokore Municipality zero among the 216 MMDAs.

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The District League Table report, introduced in 2014, has become a social accountability tool for rating all district assemblies by the level of their social development and service delivery among others.

Education, health, sanitation, security and good governance are said to be some of the key indicators for the assessment of the district assemblies.

Asante Akim North District came first in the 2018/2019 District League Table, with a 100 percent score.

Asokore Mampong assembly is said to have scored zero in all assessment sectors.

But, the MCE said the investigators never sought the Assembly’s input, suggesting the team had been untruthful about its presence in the municipality.

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He told a packed press conference attended by assembly members, staff and party supporters that the Assembly could not accept the ranking.

“We don’t know the data they used for the ranking. We, therefore, protest our position on the ranking in the District League Table,” he told a press conference.

Alhaji Alidu also accused the compilers of misrepresentation in the report.

“When an issue happens outside the municipality though involved people within the municipality, it doesn’t form the basis somebody will say there is great insecurity at Asokore Mampong. You can’t use an issue at Manso Nkwanta where seven people were gunned down mistakenly to come and say there’s insecurity at Asokore Mampong,” he fumed.

According to him, the Assembly has done so well in the provision of education and health infrastructure, sanitation and security.

“The Assembly has since 2017 undertaken a lot of projects and programmes in all sectors, to education, health, governance, etc.”

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According to the report, the two regions recorded the highest prevalence rate of 2.7 per cent for 2016 which is above the national HIV prevalence of 2.4 per cent.

The Northern Region registered the lowest prevalence rate, recording 0.7 per cent prevalence rate.

Figures for other regions

The prevalence rate for the other regions are:

Eastern 2.6 per cent,

Ashanti a 2.6 per cent,

Western -2.5 per cent,

Upper West 2.5 per cent,

Greater Accra 2.4 per cent,

Central 1.8 per cent and

Upper East 1.7 per cent.

HIV prevalence was higher in urban areas hitting 2.5 per cent, compared to 1.9 per cent for rural areas.

The 2016 HIV sentinel survey report revealed that the young population between the ages of 15 and 24, a proxy for new infections remained unchanged at 1.1 per cent.

HIV among pregnant women increase

The National AIDS Control Programme said the report shows an increase in prevalence rate among pregnant women representing a second consecutive time of rising incidence among the Ghanaian pregnant women.

Second consecutive upsurges

According to the report, the HIV prevalence for 2016 of 2.4 per cent represents a second consecutive upsurge from the 2014 prevalence of 1.6 per Cent and 1.8 per cent in 2015.

HIV prevalence among ages 45-49 highest

It revealed that HIV prevalence by age group 45-49 is highest at 5.69;?) followed by 35-39 with 15-19 being the lowest at 0.6 per cent.

Agormanya, Sunynai top urban sites

The highest prevalence within urban sites was 4.2 per cent in Agormanya in the Eastern Region and Sunynai in the Brong Ahafo Region with Wa in the Upper West Region with 3.7 per cent.

Rural prevalence highest at Fanteakwa

Rural prevalence ranged from 0.5. per cent in Builsa in the Upper East Region, Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region and Salaga in the Northern Region to 3.3 per cent in F anteakwa in the Estem Region.

Types of HIV recorded in 2016

According to the report, the proportion of HIV subtype 1 is 98.5 per cent compared to 1.5 per cent for dual HIV type 1 and 2 infections while there was no HIV type 2 infection.

Syphilis figures

It said median syphilis prevalence for 2016 is 0.2 per cent and the regional syphilis infections ranged from zero in Brong Ahafo and Upper East regions to 0.8 per cent in the Central Region.

The HIV sentinel survey is a cross sectional survey targeting pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in selected areas in the country.

In the last 11 years, health officials say, the HIV Sentinel Survey data have been used as the primary data source for the National HIV and AIDS estimates.