Bauchi enrols 16,588 living with HIV – Agency

The Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Malaria, BACATMA, has in the last 12 months enrolled 16, 588 people living with HIV on treatment, the Executive Chairman of the Agency, Muhammad Alkali, said.

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Disclosing this to newsmen in the state on Sunday during the occasion of the 2018 World AIDS Day celebration, Mr Alkali said the agency has recorded increase in the number of patients as against 13, 503 in 2017.

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Mr Alkali noted that this year ‘is highly symbolic’ in the history of AIDS in the state as the fight against the disease clocked 30 years with a significant reduction in the spread of the infection from 6.8 per cent in 2001 to 0.6 per cent in 2018.

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