The report, which was presented by the National Steering Group of “Global Plan towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections among Children by 2015 and Keeping their Mothers Alive”, stressed that the government’s target would be to reduce the number of new HIV infection in children related deaths in children by at least 90.
National Coordinator of the HIV/ AIDS Division of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Evelyn Ngige, who spoke at a meeting with the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, stressed that global target was to reduce the number of new HIV infections among children by 90 per cent and reduce the number of AIDS-related maternal deaths by 50 per cent.
Giving insight into the report, she said the current population of HIV positive persons in Nigeria is 3.1million while yearly birth in the country is six million.
“HIV prevalence remains 4.1 per cent. The population of HIV positive pregnant women annually in the country is 229,480,” she stressed.
According to the report, “58 per cent women attend Ante Natal Care (ANC) at least once, 45 per cent attend at least four times. 35 per cent of births occur in health facilities; 39 per cent deliveries by skilled birth attendants while HIV babies born annually are between 50,000 – 100, 000.”
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