The rural site had patients screened, tested and enrolled within a week.
Testing remained a problem: only private laboratories offered the viral load tests that are necessary to track hepatitis treatment, and they charged several hundred dollars per test.
Mr. Musah first began to feel ill as a high school student living in a small town in the north.
After hundreds of dollars in tests, he was finally given a hepatitis diagnosis — but was told he would need a specialty hospital to help him.
He traveled to Accra, where doctors said there were drugs, but he would have to pay for them.
Persons:
Nartey, Musah
Locations:
Ghana, Accra