How Nigeria can end AIDS before 2030, by NACA

• NIMR Engages Dispatch Riders To Reach More Of Its 24, 000 Patients • 50% Of Adolescents Do Not Know Their Status ­– David • Funding Agencies Unwilling To Procure Third-line Regimen For Patients With Mutant Virus – Akanmu The gloomy…

Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS prevalence rate drops to 1.4%

With 1.9 million persons now living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, the world’s largest black nation has dropped to 4thposition in global HIV prevalence rate, a new survey suggests. The report is contained in the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey,…

Remission patient shows HIV may be ‘curable’ —AIDS group

A second person is in sustained remission from HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, after ceasing treatment and is likely cured, researchers were set to announce at a medical conference on Tuesday. Ten years after the first confirmed case of…

AHF seeks reverse in HIV trends, sensitises Nigerians

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), Nigeria has commemorated the 2019 International Condom Day (ICD), to promote prevention of STIs, HIV and unwanted pregnancies by freely distributing condom and holding safer sex awareness activities. Speaking during an awareness rally which started at…

NACA, States To Enroll 500,000 On HIV Treatment

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS said it would generate about N26 billion to fund HIV programmes and enroll another 500,000 people for treatment. Dr. Sani Aliyu, Director-General, NACA, said the money would be generated through deduction of…

WHO, UNAIDS, NACA Laud Govt’s Move to Help Additional 50,000 People Living With HIV

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) have hailed the Federal Government’s new commitment to use domestic funds to provide antiretroviral drugs to an…

HIV/AIDS no longer the leading cause of death in Africa

Data released by WHO says that HIV deaths have decreased, while deaths in patients with lower respiratory tract infections have gone up. A new statistics has revealed that HIV/AIDS is no longer the leading cause of death in Africa. The…

Aids deaths halve as more get drugs

Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids)…

African Union endorses major new initiatives to end AIDS

African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. The community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020. The western and central…