@Drag on
READ THIS SENTENCE PLEASE FOR US.

Nigeria has the world’s highest rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

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World AIDS Day 2012: In Nigeria, A Matter Of Time And Money

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By Palash Ghosh | November 30 2012 8:37 AM

The West African colossus of Nigeria, already burdened by militant violence, widespread poverty and endemic political corruption, is also beset by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. At least 3.3 million people in the country are suffering from the disease – the second-largest such absolute figure in the world, after only South Africa.

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As in South Africa, the numbers are stark and sobering.

Nigeria has the world’s highest rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Nearly one-third (32 percent) of Nigerians afflicted with HIV work in the sex industry, according to Prof. John Idoko, the director-general for the country’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS.

About 200,000 to 300,000 Nigerians die annually from the disease, leading to a reduction in average life expectancy to only 52 years.

Idoko noted, though, the overall rates of HIV/AIDS infection have fallen slightly, from 4.6 percent to 4.1 percent between 2008 and 2010.

Moreover, over the past decade, the prevalence of HIV in Nigeria has declined by 25 percent.

But the battle against the virus is far from over.

Idoko pointed out that only one-third of the estimated 1.5 million infected Nigerians in dire and immediate need of anti-retroviral drugs have access to such medication.

Hundreds of millions of dollars – some of it from the World Bank – will be spent on HIV/AIDS education and treatment programs over the next few years. Indeed, Idoko has made the ambitious declaration that he wants to wipe out the virus from Nigeria within a few decades.

Like many African nations, Nigeria dragged its heels in facing the gathering storm. The first cases of HIV infection were reported in 1985 – but the Federal Ministry of Health waited six years before examining the prevalence of the virus, by which time 1.8 percent of the population was already infected. That figure jumped to 5.8 percent in 2001, followed by a steady decline.

Still, access to life-saving anti-retroviral drugs has been sporadic at best – by 2006 only 10 percent of HIV-infected Nigerians were receiving antiretroviral therapy, while just 7 percent of pregnant women were getting such treatment.

Part of the problem of providing quality health care to HIV-infected Nigerians has to do with the country’s immense poverty; another factor is the government’s chronic corruption and mismanagement.

In 2010, Nigeria had only 1.4 HIV testing facilities for every 100,000 adults; only 11.7 percent of people aged 15-49 had received an HIV test and come back to learn the results.

This paucity of testing, combined with the high cost of medicine, men's refusal to wear condoms and the reluctance of homosexuals to admit their orientation, has created a massive health crisis.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation said in a statement this week: “As of today, less than 20 percent of Nigerians have conducted an HIV/AIDS test.”

Now, under President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian health advocates, state officials and NGOs are mobilizing to tackle the disease comprehensively.

Michel Sidibe, the executive director of the U.N. Program on HIV and AIDS, said Nigeria will be one of 10 countries that will be the target of a new U.N.-directed plan to encourage preventative treatments of tuberculosis and HIV.

“TB/HIV is a deadly combination; we can stop people from dying of HIV/TB co-infection through integration and simplification of HIV and TB services,’’ Sidibe said.

Dr. Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, commented: “TB is preventable and curable at low cost, yet we still have one in four AIDS-related deaths caused by TB, and this is outrageous.”

Ditiu explained that people living with HIV are 20 to 30 times more likely to contract active TB than people not infected by HIV.

In 2011, she noted, 25 percent of all AIDS-related deaths in Nigeria were caused by HIV-associated tuberculosis.
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@Drag on

[b]THIS BELOW IS SIMPLE ENGLISH.

Nigeria to overtake S’Africa on HIV’
about 56 days ago
WHO alerts on fresh bird-flu outbreak

CONTRARY to widely held views, more men die daily from HIV/AIDS than women. This assertion, which was made public by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), came as the Global Fund warned that Nigeria to overtake South Africa as the most HIV burdened country.

And despite promising advances in recent years, such as declining AIDS and TB mortality and a sharp increase in the use of insecticide-treated nets, Nigeria faces serious health challenges, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to further expand domestic investment in health.


Nigeria, according to the Fund, has the second-largest number of people living with HIV in the world after South Africa. But, according to the world body, only 30 per cent of those needing treatment are on anti-retroviral therapy and only 16 per cent of pregnant HIV-positive women are getting prophylactic treatment to prevent them from passing on the virus to their babies.

The Fund said in Abuja on Wednesday that Nigeria stands the risk of overtaking South Africa unless more urgent actions are taken.

The country also has the highest child and maternal mortalities in the world, in absolute numbers, and accounts for nearly one-third of deaths from malaria globally. While TB mortality has fallen significantly since 2003, case detection rates are still among the lowest in the world.

Director General of NACA, Prof. John Idoko, who spoke at a briefing in Abuja alongside a visiting team from the Global Fund, stressed that men die more from HIV-related diseases than women in Nigeria.

He spoke of how some surveys conducted around Nigerian hospitals revealed that more women go out for HIV services like testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and treatment than men who continue to live in denial.[/b]

@Drag on
THAT COMING FROM A COUNTRY RANKED 2ND IN AIDS AND WILL SOON OVERTAKE S.A. I WON'T TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY.

IF U WERE OUT OF THE TOP 10 YOUR JOKES WOULD HURT BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY DON'T.

SAY THAT AGAIN 2014.WHEN THE WHBO AND UNICEF RECOUNT.

@Msauza
[b]Ha ha Sanusi the man who MISLED them hinted that NIGERIAS POVERTY IS INCREASING AND WILL BE WORSER IN FUTURE. He stepping down soon.

Poverty has increased considerably in Nigeria –World Bank …As Bureau of Statistics confirms 112 million Nigerians living below poverty line
June 12, 2013 | Filed under: Featured,News Update | Posted by: nigeriapoliticsonline

A grim statistics of the population of Nigerians in abject poverty was today released by the National Bureau of Statistics which said that about 112million Nigerians live below the poverty line.
This followed another depressing disclosure by the World Bank, which also said that the population of Nigerians in poverty has increased considerably.
The figure represents about 67 per cent of the entire population.
The report, made available to the Nigeria Politics Online today, stated, “On the aggregate basis, the economy when measured by the Real Gross Domestic Product, grew by 7.68 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2011, as against 8.60 per cent in the corresponding period of 2010.
“The 0.92 percentage point decrease in Real GDP growth observed in the fourth quarter of 2011 was a result of production shut-down in the oil sector during the period. On a nominal basis, the GDP for the fourth quarter of 2011 was estimated at 10,048,574.17million naira as against the 9,459,399.32million naira during the corresponding quarter of 2010, thus indicating an increase”.

However, the report noted that the fourth quarter GDP rate still showed efforts by government to take the country to one of the leading 20 economies in the world by year 2020 are on course.
The World Bank in its ‘May 2013 Nigeria Economic Report’ said the number of Nigerians living in poverty was increasing too rapidly.
The reported noted, “Poverty rates remain high in Nigeria, particularly in rural areas. These rates declined between 2003-2004 and 2009- 2010, although not nearly as fast as would be expected from the pace of economic growth in the country. While the officially reported growth rates of GDP well exceed population growth in the country, the pace of poverty reduction does not; this implies that the number of poor Nigerians living below the poverty line has grown measurably”, the report read I part.[/b]

^^^^^^WHILE SOME ACADEMICS BELIEVE NIGERIA HAS MORE HIV+ PEOPLE THAN SOUTH AFRICA.

[b]Nigeria to overtake S’Africa on HIV’
about 56 days ago
WHO alerts on fresh bird-flu outbreak

CONTRARY to widely held views, more men die daily from HIV/AIDS than women. This assertion, which was made public by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), came as the Global Fund warned that Nigeria to overtake South Africa as the most HIV burdened country.

And despite promising advances in recent years, such as declining AIDS and TB mortality and a sharp increase in the use of insecticide-treated nets, Nigeria faces serious health challenges, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to further expand domestic investment in health.


Nigeria, according to the Fund, has the second-largest number of people living with HIV in the world after South Africa. But, according to the world body, only 30 per cent of those needing treatment are on anti-retroviral therapy and only 16 per cent of pregnant HIV-positive women are getting prophylactic treatment to prevent them from passing on the virus to their babies.

The Fund said in Abuja on Wednesday that Nigeria stands the risk of overtaking South Africa unless more urgent actions are taken.

The country also has the highest child and maternal mortalities in the world, in absolute numbers, and accounts for nearly one-third of deaths from malaria globally. While TB mortality has fallen significantly since 2003, case detection rates are still among the lowest in the world.

Director General of NACA, Prof. John Idoko, who spoke at a briefing in Abuja alongside a visiting team from the Global Fund, stressed that men die more from HIV-related diseases than women in Nigeria.

He spoke of how some surveys conducted around Nigerian hospitals revealed that more women go out for HIV services like testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and treatment than men who continue to live in denial.[/b]

@Drewza
FUNNY ENOUGH THEY HAVE BALLS TO TALK POVERTY. WHO ARE THEY

andrewza:

http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/home/tags/nigeria
70% in povert
http://www.noblemissions.org/index.php/program-news/21-poverty-in-nigeria
80million people
http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/11829-70-million-nigerians-are-poor-says-world-bank-jigawa-state-poorest-in-nigeria
70 million adults

@Agaust
I REPEAT YOU'RE BLOGGING WITH SOUTH AFRICA HERE THE COUNTRY THAT IS BETTER THAN NIGERIA IN EVERYTHING NOT YOUR REGIONAL MINNOWS LIKE TOGO. You can END your stupid thread if u want.

@ALLSOUTH AFRICANS
PLEASE IGNORE THIS OLD MAN'S DIRTY PICS. HA HA WE KNOW NIGERIA VS GERMANY NEVER EXISTED.

@Msauza
IF I WERE U I WOULDN'T GIVE HIM THE "MBA" TITLE. I ONCE ARGUED WITH A NIGERIAN ON THE INTERNET THE OTHER DAY, HIS COUNTRYMEN WERE SUPPORTING HIM AND SAYING ALL SORTS OF NONSENCE ABOUT S.A. THEN I STARTED POSTING FACTS ABOUT NAIJA THEY STARTED RUNNING SOME APPLAUDED ME FOR TELLING THE TRUETH. I BEFRIENDED THE GUY THAT WAS THEIR RING LEADER AND FOUND OUT HES POOR AND HAS A DEGREE FROM A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SOMEWHERE IN NIGERIA. HE WAS SHOCKED TO SEE I WAS A SON OF A DOCTOR AND A PROF. HA HA HE EVEN GAVE ME HIS NUMBER.

@GraigB
ATLEAST OUR PEOPLE CAN STAND AND BEAT THEIR CHESTS AND SAY WE BUILT THIS.

IF U LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF ALL SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES YOU WILL NOTICE BLACKS WERE BUILDERS. THIS WAS EVEN REPEATED IN 2010 STADIUMS, AIRPORTS,HOSPITALS ETC..The only difference this time is that we had blacks who were professionals ARCHITECTS like MR LUYANDA MPHAHLWA AND MANY MORE LEADING THESE PROJECTS. YES NIGERIANS A GERMAN TRAINED BLACK ARCHITECT WAS THE LOC DESIGN TEAM LEADER, PLUS HES AN AWARD WINNING ARCHITECT.

TUNNELS AROUND S.A. WERE BUILT BY BLACKS AND CHINESE LABOUR BORUGHT IN AS SLAVES.Today theyr part of us, WE ARE ONE.

@GraigB
YOUR STATEMENT IS TRUE AGAIN. WHICH REMINDS OF ONE OF THE REASONS ALL4NAIJA RAN AWAY FROM NAIRALAND. He was ANGERED by a question that was asked by a Nigerian chap on Eko Atlantic thread. Where this guy asked HOW WILL NIGERIA MAINTAIN THESE BUILDINGS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS?He mentioned their national stadium that is looking lika GRAZING FIELD.

All4Naija like all Nigerians/Reactionaries fumed and started insults.

@SaEngine
IF I WERE I WOULDN'T BOTHER POSTING INFO LIKE THIS TO NIGERIANS AS I KNOW THEIR HEALTH SYSTEM IS bleeped UP.
Am sure we're blogging with AIDS PATIENTS here.

@Andrewza,GraigB,Thiza
ITS GONNA TAKE NIGERIANS 100 YEARS TO REALISE THAT OVERPOPULATION=BIG PROBLEMS. Water scarcity,shortage of houses,smaller space to move in and resulting into conflicts and many other problems.

Chinese and Indians are happy to know that their population will DECREASE around 2050 onwards and that will result to QUALITY OF LIFE.

@Andrewza,GraigB,Msauza,Thiza etc..

[b]WHAT MAKES ME LAUGH IS THAT THIS CLOWNS ARE GOOD AT SHOOTING OWN GOALS. NIGERIAN ISN'T SCARED TO TELL OTHER COUNTRIES THEY'RE UNEMPLOYED,POOR,LIVE IN SLUMS,AIDS ETC...Whereas in reality these are their main problems.

Over 67 million Nigerian youths unemployed


Written by Soji-Eze Fagbemi, Abuja Thursday, 27 September 2012

OVER 67 million Nigerian youths are unemployed and the scenario opens the country to a major crisis if not quickly addressed.

The Director-General, National Directorate of Employment (NDE), Mallam Abubakar Mohammed, who made the disclosure on Wednesday, said the higher the number of unemployed youths, the more likely a crisis could be stirred.

Mallam Mohammed, represented by the NDE Director of Small Scale Enterprises, Mr Kunle Obayan, was speaking at the graduation and resettlement of beneficiaries of Solar Energy Training Scheme, in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

While emphasising the urgent need to take youths off the streets and put them to work, he said this was one of the ways through which the desired peace and economic development in the country could be achieved.

Quoting the National Bureau of Statistics, he said the figure was what was obtainable as of 2011, adding that unemployment and poverty, especially among the youth, had remained one of the fundamental challenges threatening the economic development of Nigeria.

He said: "According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria has a population of over 67 million unemployed youths as of 2011. This is out of a population of about 167 million persons.

"The higher the number of unemployed youths in the country, the more likely a crisis can be stirred. It is, therefore, imperative that these youths be put to work and taken off the streets so as to achieve peace and economic development."

Mallam Mohammed pointed out that the resettlement of the graduates of the scheme marked another milestone in the fight against unemployment and poverty among youths.

He said the NDE, over the years, had been involved in environmental scanning to discover ways of mitigating unemployment, stating that one of such is the training in renewable energy, specifically the solar energy system.

This, according to him, is borne out of the realisation of the energy crisis confronting the nation.[/b]

@Andrewza
I CAN POST THAT KIND OF IMAGE AS WELL THATS A QUICK "PHOTOSHOP" PIC.

HA HA HEY NO I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND NIGERIANS, THEY FAIL TO DO BASIC THINGS AND THINK THEY CAN DO BIG THINGS??

@GraigB
GOOD OBSERVATION YOU SAY THEY LOVE "SHORT CUTS IN NIGERIA" TRUE STATEMENT. YOU CAN SEE THIS IN ALL THEIR CITIZENS, MAN ARE IN ALL SORTS OF THINGS(419,Drugs,fraud,child slavers,human trafficking,brothel owners etc..), WHILE THEIR WOMEN HAVE RAISED THEIR GAME AS WELL. NIGERIAN PROSTITUTES ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE WORLD. IN EUROPE THEY DEPORTING THOUSANDS EVERY MONTH, SAME IS ASIA. WHILE IN S.A. TODAY THOUSANDS OF NIGERIAN PROSTITUTES WILL BE PARADING ON OUR STREETS. ALL THESE ABOVE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON=WANT QUICK MONEY. GOOD OBSERVATION MY FRIEND.

CraigB:

It's so that they can boast. They love shortcuts in Nigeria. There's no foundation for anything. There's not a single thing is Nigeria that is founded on substance. Nothing. Zilch. It's all about trying the get it here and now. Which is why they never see their oil money. It's open season for everyone

Now all of these years as an underachieving people have caused them to hate themselves and those that look like them.

It's so funny. You sit and steal all day. You talk all day without working. And then when there are no results, you're disgusted at your blackness as if it's the fault of the colour of your skin that you're backward. Funny Nigerians.

@Andrewza
PLEASE UNDERSTAND AGAUST,NAIJAPIKIDIS ETC..STUPIDITY BECAUSE THEY COME FROM THAT COUNTRY BELOW. COCKED UP GIANTS WANNA BES. NOTE S.A.,EGYPT,ALGERIA,TUNISIA,MOROCCO ETC..AREN'T IN THAT LIST OF SLUMMIES. AFTER READING UNICEF AND WHBO STATS ON AFRICA, I CAN TELL U WAR TORN D.R.C IS BETTER THAN NIGERIA.

Fast facts
WHO/UNICEF joint monitoring report 2012: Progress on drinking water and sanitation

An improved sanitation facility is one that hygienically separates human excreta from human contact.

An improved drinking-water source is one that by the nature of its construction adequately protects the source from outside contamination, in particular from faecal matter.
Water

In 2010, 89 per cent of the world’s population, or 6.1 billion people, used improved drinking water sources, exceeding the MDG target (88 per cent); 92 per cent are expected to have access in 2015.
Between 1990 and 2010, two billion people gained access to improved drinking water sources.
Eleven per cent of the global population, or 783 million people, are still without access.
In 2015 the WHO/UNICEF JMP projects that 605 million will still not have access.

Sanitation

63 per cent of the global population use toilets and other improved sanitation facilities.
By 2015, 67 per cent will have access to improved sanitation facilities (the MDG target is 75 per cent).
Since 1990 1.8 billion people gained access to improved sanitation.
2.5 billion people lack improved sanitation, projected be 2.4 billion by 2015.
1.1 billion people (15 per cent of the global population) practice open defecation.
949 million open defecators live in rural areas.

Regions and countries

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 40% of the global population without access to improved drinking water.

Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track for meeting the drinking water target, but some countries have already met the target: Malawi, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Namibia, and Gambia. Liberia is on track to meet the target.

593 million in China and 251 million in India gained access to improved sanitation since 1990.

China and India account for just under half the global progress on sanitation.
India

with 626 million people who practice open defecation, has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined;
accounts for 90 per cent of the 692 million people in South Asia who practice open defecation;
accounts for 59 per cent of the 1.1 billion people in the world who practice open defecation;
has 97 million people without access to improved sources of drinking water, second only to China.

China

accounts for more than 95% of the progress on sanitation in Eastern Asia;
has 119 million people without improved drinking water, followed by India (97 million); Nigeria (66 million) [/b]and Ethiopia (46 million);
has 14 million people who practice open defecation, 8th on the list of the top 10 countries.

Countries that account for almost three-quarters of the people who practice open defecation:

India (626 million)
Indonesia (63 million)
Pakistan (40 million)
Ethiopia (38 million)
[b] Nigeria (34 million)
Sudan (19 million)
Nepal (15 million)
China (14 million)
Niger (12 million)
Burkina Faso (9.7 million)
Mozambique (9.5 million)
Cambodia (8.6 million).

Note: All the information in this report is based on data available up to and including 2012