58,000 infants born with HIV per annum in Nigeria - UN
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS has stated that about 58,000 infants are born HIV/AIDS positive yearly in.
The Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Michel Sidibe, who is in Nigeria on a three day visit, spoke on Monday night in Abuja during a courtesy call on the Director General of the National Agency for the Constraint of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko.
«If we do not attest that we are effective at reaching mother to child transmission in the least levels of authorities and at every single location, it'll be hard. From data in our publications, 58, 000 babies are born in Nigeria with HIV/AIDS each year.
»We must be able to be sure that we don't have those infants born with HIV. We need to ensure that we've got a new Nigeria generation produced without HIV. With that you would have already been able to attest, like I merely said, at all government levels."
Sidibe said there was the need to improve testing and treatment into a larger quantity of Nigerians towards winning the war against HIV/AIDS in the nation as a measure.
He explained, «If there is any Nigerian Newspapers Today Tribune one country where I should be now to be able to discuss stopping this outbreak, it will be Nigeria, because if we don't control the outbreak, it's going to be fatal. If we don't quicken the pace and reach folks, we might unable to end the epidemic.
»We have been in a defining moment, Nigeria has been in a position to demonstrate that effect is potential, that we could see fall on new infections, that we are able to see decline on the number of persons who are dying from HIV/AIDS, that we are able to boost the amount of individuals on treatment.
<img src=«http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41575000/jpg/_41575740_nigeriaobasanjo_ap203b.jpg» style=«max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;»>Sidibe, who said if they are not put on treatment immediately after arrival contaminated infants had 50 per cent chances of survival, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make sure that Nigeria does not have babies dying at the end of his tenure from HIV.
The Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Michel Sidibe, who is in Nigeria on a three day visit, spoke on Monday night in Abuja during a courtesy call on the Director General of the National Agency for the Constraint of AIDS, Prof. John Idoko.«If we do not attest that we are effective at reaching mother to child transmission in the least levels of authorities and at every single location, it'll be hard. From data in our publications, 58, 000 babies are born in Nigeria with HIV/AIDS each year.
»We must be able to be sure that we don't have those infants born with HIV. We need to ensure that we've got a new Nigeria generation produced without HIV. With that you would have already been able to attest, like I merely said, at all government levels."
Sidibe said there was the need to improve testing and treatment into a larger quantity of Nigerians towards winning the war against HIV/AIDS in the nation as a measure.
He explained, «If there is any Nigerian Newspapers Today Tribune one country where I should be now to be able to discuss stopping this outbreak, it will be Nigeria, because if we don't control the outbreak, it's going to be fatal. If we don't quicken the pace and reach folks, we might unable to end the epidemic.
»We have been in a defining moment, Nigeria has been in a position to demonstrate that effect is potential, that we could see fall on new infections, that we are able to see decline on the number of persons who are dying from HIV/AIDS, that we are able to boost the amount of individuals on treatment.
<img src=«http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41575000/jpg/_41575740_nigeriaobasanjo_ap203b.jpg» style=«max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;»>Sidibe, who said if they are not put on treatment immediately after arrival contaminated infants had 50 per cent chances of survival, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to make sure that Nigeria does not have babies dying at the end of his tenure from HIV.