Apart from having to guess the cumulative number of AIDS cases recorded in Ghana, I was also asked to guess the number of AIDS cases for Greater Accra Region (Administratively, Ghana is divided into 10 regions; the capital city, Accra, is located in the Greater Accra Region). Additionally, I was to guess the regions with the highest and lowest number of cases as well as which of Ghana’s neighbor (that is the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Togo) had the highest number of cases. As expected, I got the numbers for Greater Accra wrong, because my guess was tied to my initial guess of 600,000. I guessed 70,000 because I felt that the number of cases would be lower due to the high literacy rate in the region. The actual number of cases, however, turned out to be 11,106 6. I also guessed that the Upper West Region would have the lowest number of cases because it was the least urbanized and that the Eastern Region would have the highest number of cases, because I remembered seeing that somewhere in the news some time ago. In actual fact, the Upper West Region did have least cumulative number of cases. The Eastern Region however didn’t have the most cases. Rather, the Ashanti Region did (Table 1). Was my source therefore wrong? No, I was simply confused. The Eastern Region does have the highest number of HIV cases in the country, not cumulative AIDS. You will also find in table 1 a column entitled cumulative AIDS. Cumulative AIDS is simply the number of people per 100,000 who have AIDS. If you look at the table carefully, you will notice that the cumulative rate is usually proportional to the total population of the region. A few regions however do not follow this pattern, and the Eastern Region is one such region. Though in Ghana it is estimated that 85% of all HIV infections occur through heterosexual contact7, recent developments indicate that the region is slowly becoming a hub for homosexuality and other forms of sexual activity as a result of the grand funerals usually staged in the area8. This is because unlike some cultures, in Ghana, funerals are grander than weddings. People therefore go to these funerals in anticipation of getting drunk and finding another drunken person to have free sex with. Of a truth, it is very unlikely these drunken people use condoms during sexual intercourse. For the Upper East and Upper West Regions, a number of factors come into play. These two, especially the latter, are the least urbanized regions in the country. As a result, the rate of illiteracy among the people living in these areas is high. This, coupled with their distances from the capital (they are the farthest from the capital) acts as a huge impediment to HIV/AIDS awareness education in the area. Also, a lot of people move in and out of these areas because these areas serve as Ghana’s northern border with landlocked Burkina Faso. As such, in the incidence of the availability of brothels, the Burkinabe’s (people of Burkina Faso) may be sleeping with the prostitutes, and the local man, who may have more than one wife, may also be sleeping with these same prostitutes. I also guessed that the Ivory Coast would have the most number of cases because the country had become unstable as a result of the civil war. I reasoned that because of the war, the incidence of rape might go up and also, that the attention of nation would be focused on restoring peace, not on HIV/AIDS. My guess turned out to be right.