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HIV: FG tasks committee to scale-up paediatric care
The Federal Government has tasked the  committee on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) and Paediatric AIDS Acceleration Plan to scale-up interventions to eliminate HIV transmission in Nigeria. Dr Tunji Alausa, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, while inaugurating the committee in Abuja, expressed concern that Nigeria contributes 25 per cent global burden of HIV transmission between mother-to-children. He…
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Nigeria recorded 75,000 new HIV infections in 2023 — NACA
Dr Temitope Ilori, the Director-General of National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), said 75,000 new infected HIV cases and 45,000 HIV-related deaths were recorded in 2023. She made this known at a two-day National Prevention Technical Working Group (NPTWG) meeting organised by NACA in Abuja on Wednesday. She said although there is gradual reduction in new HIV infections, there…
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Fast-spreading HIV variant doubles rate of immune system decline -UNAIDS
Newly published research from the Netherlands has revealed the existence of a more transmissible and damaging variant of HIV, according to tsshe Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). It said on Monday in a statement that “people living with the newly revealed subtype, experience double the rate of immune system decline (measured by the CD4 count level of infection-busting…
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UNFPA blames heightened spread of STIs, HIV on human trafficking
Trafficking in Persons has been identified as one of the major factors capable of heightening the spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), and HIV infections globally. Speaking on Friday in Abuja, Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Natalia Kanem, said traffickers preyed upon the poor and the vulnerable, binding them in unspeakable conditions where every human right was violated.…
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14 Boko Haram displaced persons test positive for HIV/AIDs in Yobe
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) on Thursday confirmed that 14 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) tested positive out of 2,109 screened for HIV/AIDS in Yobe. Dr Aminu Fikin, NACA Project Coordinator in Yobe, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nguru, Yobe. Fikin said that 759 people in Nguru, 850 in Jakusko, 400 in…
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