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300,000 Pregnant Women Positive with HIV Yearly_NACA DG
National Mirror
Abuja June 7, 2013
Out of the six million women who become pregnant in Nigeria yearly, about 300,000 are positive with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, Prof. John Idoko, revealed yesterday. This was even as he emphasised that the country remained the second most burdened with the disease globally.
Idoko made this known yesterday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting on HIV/AIDS Most-At-Risk- Population, MARP, Programme Implementation and Impact Evaluation. While decrying what he termed; “Nigeria’s slow progress” in combating the disease, he said 3.4million people are still living with the scourge in the country. “Out of the figure, he said 1.5million are required to be on drugs based on the current health guidelines, but that only 500,000 of the population, have access to anti-retroviral drugs needed for their treatment.
He said: “In this country, about six million women are pregnant every year. Out of this, about 300,000 are HIV positive. If you do nothing, about half of them would transmit the virus to their children. If you do something, you can reduce that percentage to about five percent. How much are we doing now?
“We do just only about 20 percent. The reason is because we cannot make the woman go for ante-natal care. In many of the states, the women are not going for ante-natal care. Where do they go? They go to the imams, mosques, pastors and churches. They don’t test them there. And then, they also lose the women and the children there.”
He therefore called for the transfer of ownership of HIV/AIDS’ interventions to the states across Nigeria, stressing that only 25 percent of fund expended on the disease come from the Nigerian government while the remaining 75 percent is generated through international donations.
seriously so Nigeria women don't take care of themselves by going for a check to know their status before spreading legs to have kids... Hisss feel sorry for most of the children born with HIV ... Make una dey use CD... I can't really blame them that much it might be the their hubby fault ...
LOVE COMES TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN IT...LET TALK ABOUT LOVE.
Posted: at 9-06-2013 12:51 AM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
steveoneal at 9-06-2013 11:36 AM (11 years ago) (m)
NAIJA;GOVT IS TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY HERE; WALKING ON THEIR TWO LEGS; LET ALONE THE BABIES IN THE WOMB;; I JUST HOPE THE GOVT WOULD ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO THIS REPORT AND FIND SOMETHING; DEFINITELY PREVENTIVE MEASURES BEFORE ALL THE NEW BABIES AND LATER SENORITAS TURN TO HIV+
Posted: at 9-06-2013 11:36 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
steveoneal at 9-06-2013 11:37 AM (11 years ago) (m)
NAIJA;GOVT IS NOT TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY HERE; WALKING ON THEIR TWO LEGS; LET ALONE THE BABIES IN THE WOMB;; I JUST HOPE THE GOVT WOULD ATTACH IMPORTANCE TO THIS REPORT AND FIND SOMETHING; DEFINITELY PREVENTIVE MEASURES BEFORE ALL THE NEW BABIES AND LATER SENORITAS TURN TO HIV+
Posted: at 9-06-2013 11:37 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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