The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS said the world has exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal and…
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The statement also quoted Dr. Bilali Camara, UNAIDS Country Director for Nigeria, as saying: “When health care providers own the target, its success will be guaranteed in Nigeria
The police spokesman in the state, DSP Othman Abubakar, said that the suspect was helping the State Criminal Investigation Department in its investigation
Fikin said that 759 people in Nguru, 850 in Jakusko, 400 in Gashua, 400 in Yusufari and 250 in Jajimaji Local Government Areas were TESTED for the virus
At least 105 villagers, including 19 children, were reported HIV positive, according to local media
Danuk, who represented Dr. Sebastian Wakdok, Project Director for NACA/SUPE-P HIV/AIDS programme, said Lugbe was chosen for the campaign due to the Prevalence Surveillance Survey conducted in the area recently
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“The decline in new infections is a clear sign that the government of Nigeria is steering the HIV response in the right direction and much progress can be realised if more resources are committed to the cause,” the statement said.
According to the report, new infections showed signs of decline while about 640,000 people in Nigeria are on antiretroviral therapy in 2013
Idoko, the Director General of NACA, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday that the right and dignity of People Living With HIV/AIDS would be guaranteed by the proposed law
She said that cervical cancer was killing more people worldwide than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria put together
The passage of the HIV and AIDS Anti-Discrimination Bill, 2014, followed a clause by clause consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Health by a Committee of the Whole
The report stated that vaginal gels, containing anti-retroviral drugs, were important for HIV prevention but were designed to be applied by women before sex, which could interfere with sex practice and limit their potency
Laboratory testing confirmed that the woman from Texas had a virus “virtually identical” to that of her female partner, who was diagnosed previously with HIV
Kolo announced this in her office in Maiduguri, when she received members of the state chapter of the Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, the Association of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria can now access funds from the National Agency for the Control of AIDS
“Presently, 24,988 of them are receiving free anti-retroviral drugs from the various centres opened by the government
Idoko expressed delight over the partnership between NACA and APIN, saying: “It is one of our most significant partners in the area of prevention, treatment, care and support
HIV/AIDS occurrence, which stood at 3.40 per cent in 2008, a year after Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, assumed office, dropped to 2.50 per cent in 2010, rose in 2011 to 2.60, and blown to 2.90 per cent in 2012
Chuckwu said the country would henceforth make use of musicians, entertainers in the Nigerian movie industry and other role models in the country’s growing fashion industry to educate people on HIV and AIDS
The chairman of the House of Reps Committee on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, Hon. Joseph Abe, gave the assurance on Monday at a meeting on ‘Emergency Response Plan for HIV/Aids in Nigeria’, presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja