Naana Kakie, Chief Executive Officer of the Naana Kakie Foundation, has called on lovers to consider celebrating Valentine’s Day with care, noting that HIV/AIDS still exist and can be easily transmitted to one’s partner.
According to her, Valentine’s Day celebrations can be used to transmit the disease, calling on the public to be wary of sexual intimacy on the day.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Kasseh on Thursday, February 13, 2025, Naana Kakie noted that though such an occasion can be memorable for lovers to reflect on their love journeys and share pleasantries, it can also be the saddest moment for some lovers.
She further explained that the story behind the Valentine’s Day celebration is for lovers to share memorable reflections and to re-ignite their love bonds.
“But there are others also who have the intention of approaching and befriending new people of the opposite sex in order to transmit HIV to them on Valentine’s Day.”
The CEO, who is known for her consistent education on HIV AIDS and its prevention, told the GNA that some HIV-positive patients feel deceived, cheated and betrayed, so they sometimes want to pay back other innocent persons of the opposite sex by way of having sexual intercourse with them so they can spread the disease to as many people as possible.
She also urged the youth to be circumspect of their sexual lives, noting that the Valentine’s Day celebration should be about sharing positive memories and making positive impacts in the lives of loved ones but not paying back innocent persons for a crime they did not commit.
Naana Kakie noted that some people, after being diagnosed with HIV, run to prayer centres and camps to pray for healing instead of taking the Antiretroviral drugs and rushing to the hospital after worsening their situation in a few years.
She appealed to HIV AIDS patients to consistently take their medication to prevent the spread of the virus.
She also called on the youth to prevent themselves from contracting the virus by wearing condoms during sexual intercourse.
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