Tag: HIV
Isolo LCDA chairman urges healthy living at free medical outreach
The Chairman, Isolo Local Council Development Area, Mr Adebayo Olasoju, has urged residents to adopt healthy lifestyles as the council organized free medical health...
Lenacapavir: Nigeria to roll out twice-yearly HIV prevention injection — NACA
Abuja, March 2, 2026 (NAN) The Federal Government says Nigeria has recorded significant progress toward the introduction and nationwide rollout of Lenacapavir (LEN) as...
UNICEF donates 25,000 HIV test kits to Bauchi State
Bauchi, Jan. 26, 2016 (NAN) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has donated 25,000 HIV test kits to the Bauchi state government to improve...
Stakeholders advocate for local condom production to boost HIV prevention
Stakeholders at the 2025 National Condom Summit in Abuja on Wednesday called for the local production of condoms to improve access to preventive measures...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
