The Federal Government on Monday in Abuja expressed appreciation on the significant progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, but declared that the country records 281,000 new infections yearly.

According to the Federal Government, only 400,000 persons living with the disease are receiving drugs out of the 3 million people currently affected. About 1.5 million people are required to be on life saving anti-retroviral drugs.

The Director-General of the National Action Committee on AIDS, Prof. John Idoko, stated this at the zonal consultations on ownership for sustainable HIV response where he also attributed the irregular funding of NACA by donor agencies to global meltdown in the past three years.

He said, “We have seen very significant progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Nigeria – more than 25 per cent HIV decline between 2001 and 2009. However, we still have very significant gaps.

“Nigeria has the largest burden of transmission of mother child of HIV in the world – 30 per cent with about 70,000 children born every year with HIV. These children hardly live to see their third birthday without treatment.”

Idoko said much remained to be accomplished if future generations were to live in a world in which the threat of AIDS had been overcome.

He said, “If we are to transform the landscape of AIDS, it must remain high on the national and global agenda.

“We must move to a response that is long-term and sustainable-one that makes full use of the knowledge and resources developed over the past three decades, yet continues and respond to a changing world that is constantly influencing the future of AIDS.”

The NACA boss also called on donor agencies to ensure regular funding of the agency.

He said, “Funding remains largely externally driven and this is unsustainable. Over 80 per cent of our funding for the AIDS response is from donors.”

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wow this is so sad

I think the Virus is curable by now, or this noise last time resulted to nothing? I was expecting to see zero HIV by year 2015 according to the report

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There will be an increase Tomorrow courtesy of Today

Here's the position according to states:

1) Akwa Ibom
2) Benue
3) ?

More awareness needs to be done.

js_pac:

There will be an increase Tomorrow courtesy of Today

Abstainence still remains the best way to stop this.

stop having so much sex!

As the population of the country is increasing, so also is AIDS. PATHETIC!!!
But we must have sex, or the population wont increase.
HAVE SAFE SEX.

This figure is frightening.

that's really sad - sooo many,
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executinal:

I think the Virus is curable by now

Dude, do yourself a favor and go get tested.

;d ;d

Since Prof. Oshotimehin let NACA the awareness for spread of HIV/Aids in Nigeria had slowed downward. People seems to forget or not remember most times that virus dey around o.

HIV, in Nigeria, well is due to poverty, if you check not many girls who o into prostitution knows much about sexual health, and majority of girls who hustle in Abuja, Lagos, PH, benin, east, are students, hotels springing up everywhere in neighborhoods, so well, and again IGNORANCE, use a condom, anytime, anywhere