A new report has revealed the alarmingly large number of people currently living with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus in Nigeria.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has revealed that Nigeria
ranks the second largest number of people living with Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the whole world with over three (3)
million Nigerians living with the virus.
According to Daily Sun, Africa’s Bureau Chief of AHF, Dr. Penninah
Lutung, who disclosed this in an interview in Makurdi, the Benue State
capital, said West Africa ranked lowest in the prevalence rate of the
virus in the Africa continent.
His words, “The prevalence of HIV is highest in the South
Africa region where it is about 10 percent and South Africa has 18
percent followed by the East Africa bloc where prevalence rate is
between 5 and 8 percent but West Africa overall has the lowest
prevalence rate while Nigeria has about 3.4 percent.
“But Nigeria is a large country such that 3.4 percent in actual
number means that about 3 million people are living with HIV in the
country. In the whole world, Nigeria has the second largest number of
people living with HIV.”
Lutung however said the AHF’s vision of global AIDS control, the
epidemic can be controlled if new infections are reduced drastically
through the current number of strategies and modules being used as
combination prevention.
The Africa’s Bureau Chief stressed further that the foundation had
existed for 30 years in 13 African countries including Nigeria which is
only five years old in its service.
Commenting, Country Programme Manager of AHF, Dr. Adetayo Towolawi,
intimated that the foundation had committed more than N25 million to
four new projects in Benue which included the building of new structures
and rehabilitation of existing clinics donated to Daudu, Agasha,
Gbajimba and Agan communities in different local government areas of the
state.
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