Chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affair Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, has provided staggering statistics with regards to the activities of the LGBTQ+ community in the country.
On Wednesday, July 5, Mr Anyimadu-Antwi informed the house of a report by the Ghana AIDS Commission which captured the sexual activities of gay men over a lustrum ago.
Per the said report, 54,759 men living in Ghana engaged in same-sex sexual intercourse in 2017.
“Out of this number, 9,857 representing 18.1 per cent were found to live with HIV. According to the Commission, although the number represents only 2% of the HIV population in the country, the 18% prevalence rate is enough for disease to grow exponentially,” he said while citing the report.
Mr Anyimadu-Antwi capitalised on the report to highlight the health dangers the activities of the LGBTQ+ community he said pose to the society at large.
Proponents of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, officially known as the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 have argued that the legislation is necessary to protect public health and promote Ghanaian family values.
However, opponents of the bill highlight the importance of human rights, equality, and non-discrimination in addressing these concerns.
Meanwhile, the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affair committee has presented a report on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, commonly known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill to the plenary.