Winner of the 2004 Miss Universe Ghana Pageant, Menaye Donkor has bemoaned what she says is the increasing lack of knowledge on prevention and spread of the dreaded HIV AIDS. The philanthropist, actress and wife of Ghana’s football Star Sulley Ali Muntari is also worried about the active discouragement from the use of contraceptives [a mode of prevention] which she feared could lead to more spread of the disease. In a statement to mark World AIDS Day, 2011, Menaye Donkor called for more education, especially on the mother to child transmission of HIV. “One of the major problems in Ghana, and again something that I have witnessed firsthand, is the lack of knowledge about prevention of the infection spreading. In some areas the use of contraceptives as a solution is not only not known about, it is sometimes actively discouraged. There is also a lack of awareness about the way HIV and AIDS is spread to unborn children,” she said. She said “with better education, screening, and medical care, so many more lives could be saved”. “No child should be born into this world without hope. Spare a thought for the millions of children across the world who suffer every day at the hands of this disease and do what you can to help raise awareness wherever you are in the world,” she noted.