martineverest:
how did they get to know this?

Cos everybody is not intellectually challenged like u??How did they invent internet?

I don't believe this!

Chaiiiiii

Buhari effect everywhere


Education dead.. Cow rearing his priority with radio Fulani

Health sector dead... Since he can afford London hospital with YUSUF his son..

Transportation dead... His first project was Daura helipad

Buhari is evil personified

BigIyanga:

Cos everybody is not intellectually challenged like u??How did they invent internet?

too much Dumbos on nairaland...u mean they churn out this statistics with online research?..u should be more intelligent than this low IQ statement of yours

SarkinYarki:
There is something wrong with this place called Nigeria ..How can one you try have all the bad records

guy, forget all these things, many of them are actually wrong.

It was once said Nigeria has the highest number of people living with hiv and prevalence rate was 3.2% until nigeria did its own survey early this year n realized our prevalence rate is actually 1.4%.


I've learnt to handle many things like this with a pinch of salt.

martineverest:
too much Dumbos on nairaland...u mean they churn out this statistics with online research?..u should be more intelligent than this low IQ statement of yours

lol, nigerians are one of d most gullible people on earth.

No survey was done, nothing nothing.... just a gross estimate from UN and many Nairalanders are actually believing it.

We really don't know the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Since 2013, 2.9million. I've never seen a country more careless with her problems.
Later some uneducated folks would be insulting other African countries when their own country can't handle her problems.

hmmm

martineverest:
too much Dumbos on nairaland...u mean they churn out this statistics with online research?..u should be more intelligent than this low IQ statement of yours

What a product of calcified semen. Folks like u are dishing out ignorant opinions everywhere. Just Google Science Magazine. Even if u did, you wouldn't still know the difference online vs Science Journal? Also your teacher never taught u about “peer-reviewed” article because he lifted and stole another man’s work and printed it in his handout and sold it to u as his.
Everybody doesn't wallow in ignorance like like u. Go to Maya Iyabo’s beer parlour to debate your match.

theenchanter:
lol, nigerians are one of d most gullible people on earth.

No survey was done, nothing nothing.... just a gross estimate from UN and many Nairalanders are actually believing it.

Typical Naija unintelligent attitudes towards monumental problems. You Chairman of National Agency for Control of Aids reeling out the numbers and a dumbo Arrow like u doubting those numbers. Read up. PBS is doing a series on this

HarryDuce:
We really don't know how many people are living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria. Since 2013, 2.9million. I've never seen a country more careless with her problems.
Later some uneducated folks would be insulting other African countries when their country can't handle her problems.

Our last survey on hiv stated that they're 1.9m people living with hiv in Nigeria and our prevalence rate is 1.4%.

The result was released March 2019.
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2019/march/20190314_nigeria

This thread is even a 2018 article, old news.

A gullible person is born every second in Nigeria placing Nigeria top ten gullible nation in the world and natural test ground for every Baron-munchausenesc statistic cooked up in laboratory fuckupafrica at the Haig.


....actually Congo was the test bed and lessons learned slowly being implemented in Nigeria.

BigIyanga:

Typical Naija unintelligent attitudes towards monumental problems. You Chairman of National Agency for Control of Aids reeling out the numbers and a dumbo Arrow like u doubting those numbers. Read up. PBS is doing a series on this

i guess u should read more. Read about d latest stats on Nigeria's hiv rate instead of depending on old news.

theenchanter:
Our last survey on hiv stated that they're 1.9m people living with hiv in Nigeria and our prevalence rate is 1.4%.

The result was released March 2019.
https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2019/march/20190314_nigeria

This thread is even a 2018 article, old news.

It's just strange that the figures were higher in 2017, and prevalence rate of1.4? The reports are very inconsistent.

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria

If memory serves me faithfully, at one point, just before Nigerians were labeled number one bleachers in the world and Nigerian women the most promiscuous , they placed Nigeria second to South Africa as nation with the fastest growing obsess population in the world. I guess this last wouldn't get past even our gullibility and it slipped into obscurity.

HarryDuce:
It's just strange that the figures were higher in 2017, and prevalence rate of1.4? The reports are very inconsistent.

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/nigeria

that's why u shouldn't believe every report. most stats are calculated using estimates. Only credible survey must be done before believing this type of report. Our prevalence rate was 2.8% before the newly conducted survey, not I. 4%

That's d reason d FG started its own survey on hiv in Aug 2018, d survey lasted 6months and d result was released in March this year.

Our latest report on hiv will be used henceforth and our latest survey says we have 1.9m people living with hiv at 1.4% prevalence rate, the new born baby stuff is bogus.

Litmus:
If memory serves me faithfully, at one point, just before Nigerians were labeled number one bleachers in the world and Nigerian women the most promiscuous , they placed Nigeria second to South Africa as nation with the fastest growing obsess population in the world. I guess this last wouldn't get past even our gullibility and it slipped into obscurity.

lol, u dey remember things wella.

Many useless reports on Nigeria that aren't true but gullible nigerians will swallow anything thrown to them.

Maybe it's because they just love bad news for their country.

And they always scream" South Africa" this and that. You don't throw stones when you dwell in a glass house

rusher14:
Difficult to believe.

Very difficult to believe, indeed. When will science and media reports stop blaming us for our pains? Worse still, they paint us as bad, infectous and hopeless with every little opportunity.

I personally believe that there are more than 1.9 million people leaving with HIV in Nigeria, because in my vicinity alone, am aware of a handful of people leaving with this disease. Many people living with HIV in Nigeria do not go for test. An average Nigerian prefers to be caught up with AIDS and die at once than to do any HIV test, this is due to fear.

don't accept this lies. Even the children of Ashawo are HIV negative due to drugs taken by their mom. Except if aids has started streading in the North, it is only in the North can these happen.

eki2000:
I personally believe that there are more than 1.9 million people leaving with HIV in Nigeria, because in my vicinity alone, am aware of a handful of people leaving with this disease. Many people living with HIV in Nigeria do not go for test. An average Nigerian prefers to be caught up with AIDS and die at once than to do any HIV test, this is due to fear.

In Nigeria, apart from those stupid teenagers, those infected redistribute it amongst themselves, new infections are not that common.

iwaeda:
NIGERIA—On a January morning, 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu slumps in his father’s lap, head pressed against his chest. Infected at birth with HIV, he is tiny for his age and has birdlike limbs. He has been feverish for 3 days, which is why his father, Ibrahim, brought him to the pediatric HIV/AIDS clinic at Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. “He’s been losing weight, he is not eating well, he’s still taking his drugs, and he’s complaining of chest pains and coughing,” Ibrahim tells the nurse. Yusuf’s records show that at his last blood check 6 months ago, HIV had already ravaged the boy’s immune system, even though he was receiving antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. When the doctor, Oma Amadi, examines his mouth, it is filled with white sores from candidiasis, a fungal infection. “The boy has been sick for so long,” she says. “I’m going to admit him.” When Amadi removes Yusuf’s shirt to listen to his chest, the boy winces at the touch of her stethoscope. Amadi suspects Yusuf has tuberculosis, and after x-raying his lungs, the doctors put him in an isolation room.

Yusuf’s mother was never tested for HIV before he was born: She received no prenatal care and delivered at home. Yusuf was not tested for the virus until she died of AIDS 3 years later. Ibrahim then learned that he, too, is HIV-positive, as are his two other wives. One ended up transmitting the virus to a second child, now 4.

The entire family receives ARVs, but Yusuf has only had intermittent access to the drugs. Dosing is based on weight, and Yusuf’s has fluctuated so much that he has required monthly hospital visits. Ibrahim, a security guard, earns the equivalent of only about $20 a month. The Adamus live 20 kilometers and three bus rides from the hospital. The round trip bus fare costs $2, and Ibrahim has to miss a day of work for each checkup, when he also picks up his son’s ARVs. Ibrahim simply can’t afford regular treatment for his son. “There is no food at home,” Ibrahim says


Yet poverty alone does not explain the root of Yusuf’s plight—which hundreds of thousands of other Nigerian children living with HIV now face. At a time when rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV have plummeted, even in far poorer countries, Nigeria accounted for 37,000 of the world’s 160,000 new cases of babies born with HIV in 2016. The most populous country in Africa, Nigeria does have an exceptionally large HIV-infected population of 3.2 million people. But South Africa—the hardest-hit country in the world, with 7.1 million people living with the virus—had only 12,000 newly infected children in 2016. The high infection rate, along with the lack of access to ARVs—coverage is just 30%—helps explain why 24,000 children here died of AIDS in 2016, nearly three times as many as in South Africa.

Mother-to-child transmission is only one part of Nigeria’s HIV epidemic. But that route of transmission epitomizes the country’s faltering response to the crisis, highlighting major gaps in HIV testing that allow infections to go untreated and the virus to spread. “Nigeria contributes the largest burden of babies born with HIV in the world—it’s close to one in every four babies [globally] being born with HIV—and that’s really not acceptable,” says Sani Aliyu, who heads the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in Abuja. And it is a solvable problem—even here. The key is to find and treat the relatively small population of pregnant, HIV-infected women, because those who receive ARVs rarely transmit the virus to their babies. Like most countries, Nigeria has made mother-to-child transmission a priority for more than a decade, and it has seen a reduction in children born with HIV. Still, the country stands out for its slow progress. “What we’ve realized is that we need to think outside the box,” Aliyu says.


Ibrahim Adamu sits with his son Yusuf in an isolation room at Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja. MISHA FRIEDMAN
A pregnant woman living with HIV has a 15% to 30% chance of transmitting the virus to her baby in utero or at birth, and breastfeeding will infect up to 15% more. In 1994, a study showed that one ARV drug, azidothymidine, cut transmission rates by two-thirds if given to the mother before and after delivery and to the baby for 6 weeks. But few poor countries used that regimen because it was expensive and complex, requiring an intravenous drip of the drug during labor. Five years later, a study in Uganda showed a single dose of another ARV, nevirapine, given to a mother in labor and a baby at birth, could reduce transmission by 50%, which soon became a standard of care. Countries all over the world began aggressive prevention campaigns. Nigeria launched a program in 2002 when it had 54,000 newly infected children, and transmissions began to slowly decline.

Today, the standard of care is to treat all HIV-infected people, including pregnant women, with daily combinations of powerful ARVs. When treatment suppresses the virus in pregnant women and, as an additional safety measure, their newborn babies also receive ARVs for 6 weeks, transmission rates typically plummet to less than 1%. In the developed world and many developing countries, mother-to-child transmission is now rare. But the regimen can’t be given if pregnant women don’t know whether they are infected.

According to estimates from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 21.58% of HIV-infected, pregnant Nigerian women transmitted the virus to their children in 2016. Nigeria’s central problem is that some 40% of women give birth at home or in makeshift clinics run by traditional birth attendants, where women are unlikely to get tested. The reasons women do not seek care at more formal health care facilities like Asokoro Hospital are many and overlapping: poverty, fear of stigma and discrimination for simply seeking an HIV test, lack of education, tradition, and husbands wary of health care.

Another barrier is the “formal” fee that the government levies for care at a clinic. Deborah Birx, director of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Washington, D.C., which has invested more than $5 billion in preventing and treating HIV in Nigeria, says the fee “opens the door” for others to tack on more insidious “informal” fees. “If you want to get your lab results back or you want to get your blood drawn, that nurse may charge you,” Birx explains. Those fees, she says, “are very hard to police.” When one Nigerian state eliminated the formal fee, the number of women who came to clinics for antenatal care doubled, she says.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/nigeria-has-more-hiv-infected-babies-anywhere-world-it-s-distinction-no-country-wants

and all those women were infected by men who regularly goes to churches and mosques, same with the women...

Our Christianity is really local and domesticated...

How did you get your hypothesis or data to make this illusive conclusion?

oluwasegun007:
Meaning more HIV infected parents....


Al iz well.

and you believe this? more than South Africa where 4 in 5 people is HIV+ ?

When there is no accountability of any fashion except for bad things;

Who inspects the nurse's needles, who inspects the manufactured needles that are being sold in nigeria? No sanitation, not just in the hospitals but around the hospital and on the way to the hospital. Of course, no light for all kinds of storage, so drug quality is compromised.



All those e no matter things are now mattering.

If one arab or any odas, no like us, e easy for am to lace anything with impunity. We are too naive and very ignorant as a nation.


God help naija personally because we are not attentive and proactive in anything not personal.

martineverest:
how did they get to know this?

The holy spirit revealed it to them..stupid question

1Sharon:


The holy spirit revealed it to them..stupid question

Don't take it too personal sis, life is too short

Wisedove:

Don't take it too personal sis, life is too short

Sorry wasn't you I meant to quote

Wisedove:
Don't take it too personal sis, life is too short

Hahahaha funny reply

This is serious