UNICEF, in a report: ‘Children, HIV and AIDS: The World in 2030’, said current trends indicated AIDS-related deaths and new infections were slowing, but the downward trajectory was not happening fast enough.
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Its Director-General, Dr Sani Aliyu, made this known in Abuja on Monday at a news conference to commemorate the World AIDS Day.
According to the report released by UNAIDS, 75 per cent of all people living with HIV or 27 million people, know their HIV status.
A new report from UNAIDS shows that intensified HIV testing and treatment efforts are reaching more people living with HIV.
A Gynaecologist, Dr Jones Owolabi, has advised pregnant women who are HIV-positive to opt for delivery of their babies through caesarean section.
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS says the Nigerian HIV/AIDS Trust Fund will be functional by March 2019.
The Gammora peptide has the potential to cure HIV-infected patients by destroying all cells carrying the HIV virus-genome
Ifeanyi Ezeudemba, a Pharmacist with AIDS Health Care Foundation an NGO, has warned persons living with HIV and AIDS to refrain from co-administration of anti-retroviral medications and herbal medicines.
Rev. Sr. Eunice Okobia of Medical Missionaries of Mary Clinic, ACO Housing Estate, Abuja, gave the advice on Saturday while addressing mothers during an immunisation programme.
Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, said in a statement by the organization, that the leaders also agreed to provide 30 million people with preventive treatment to protect them from developing TB.
NAIIS ‘s Director in charge of Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation, Dr Adebobola Bashorun, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
The billion-dollar project “MenStar” will target men living with or at risk of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been ravaged by AIDS since the 1980s.
“Health is a human rights imperative and we are deeply concerned about the lack of political commitment and the failure to invest in proven HIV programmes, particularly for young people and key populations,” said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS.
In a new report, launched on Wednesday in Paris, France, at an event co-hosted with Coalition PLUS, UNAIDS warns that the global response to HIV is at a precarious point.
Giwa-Tubosun said at an exhibition of “Innovations on Health Care” on Thursday in Lagos that research showed that HIV infection through poor blood management was that much.
Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director, made this known in a statement issued by the Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) on Monday in Abuja.
Dr. Marnsur Dada, Executive Chairman, BACATMA, made this known on Saturday at a ceremony to mark the 2018 World TB Day in Bauchi, with the theme: “Wanted Leaders for Free Tuberculosis World.”
The Site Coordinator, AHF Clinic, Dr Kema Onu, said this on the sideline of the procession of the 2018 World Condom Day, in conjunction with Valentine’s Day.
The police in Uttar Pradesh state’s Unnao district filed a complaint against Rajendra Yadav, who has fled the region in anticipation of arrest, the district’s chief medical officer, SP Choudhary, told dpa by phone.
According to the multiple indicator cluster survey report, which was released by the National Bureau of statistics in conjunction with UNICEF, the report indicated that many husbands are not aware that there is a probability that their wives can transmit the HIV virus to the baby either during pregnancy or during delivery.