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Chances of getting infected with HIV/AIDS in Rivers state, Nigeria’s oil-rich city is pretty high as it ranks number one in the country.

There’s loads of money in Rivers, so is the vulnerability of its citizens and residents to HIV/AIDS.

According to the HIV/AIDS prevalence ranking by states published by National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) after the 2013 National Aids Reproductive Health Survey, Rivers sits pretty at the top 4.7 per cent more than number two, Taraba state.

The ranking also came as a result of test carried out on persons living with HIV/AIDS.

It showed that Rivers with 15.2 per cent topped the new prevalence chat, as Taraba with 10.5 per cent is second, while Kaduna has 9.2 per cent to be on the third.

Nasarawa, FCT, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto and Oyo are on the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth spots respectively on the prevalence rate chart with 8.1, 7.5, 6.5, 6.4, 5.6 and 5.6 per cent respectively.

On number 10 is Yobe with 5.3%. Here’s how other states rank: Cross River – 4.4%, Ondo – 4.3%, Gombe – 3.4%, Abia – 3.3%, Bayelsa – 2.7%, Osun – 2.6%, Imo – 2.5%, Borno – 2.4%, Plateau – 2.3%, Lagos – 2.2%, Jigawa – 2.1%, Adamawa – 1.9%, Kwara – 1.4%, Kogi – 1.4%, Kano – 1.3%, Enugu – 1.3%, Niger – 1.2%, Anambra – 1.2%, Ebonyi – 0.9%, Kebbi – 0.8%, Edo – 0.8%, Delta – 0.7%, Ogun – 0.6%, Bauchi – 0.6%, Zamfara – 0.4%, Ekiti – 0.2%.


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/11/16/hiv-prevalence-ranking-rivers-state-most-rampant-ekiti-the-safest/

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a global pandemic that continues to affect millions of people worldwide and the vast majority of people living with HIV are from low and middle-income countries

In Nigeria, the number of people living with HIV and being diagnosed with AIDS has been steadily increasing. In the first wave in 1986, AIDS emerged through infected blood products in a six-year-old girl diagnosed at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR)
Nigeria is no more in denial of the virus, thus at every gathering of experts, discussions on how to increase funding for preventions and care for those already infected dominates discussions. While these are so at the national levels, states ,and Local government areas are playing lip services or simply do not see HIV as a development issue.

In Imo State, HIV is regarded as an old school disease, and life goes on as the youth cares less about the virus. The state government is the worst of it all. For over 12 years, there is no single coordinated effort to control the viral spread of the epidemic. World Bank support fund to control the virus has been hanging in the air for over 10 years and the government wants to divert the fund for other uses. Incredibly offensive to the control of the virus, the state government sees HIV as a non-issue and therefore a complete waste of the resources. HIV Program Development Project2 (HPDP2) was established to support HIV/AIDS national response in Nigeria. Imo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (ImoSACA) received funding from the World Bank towards the cost of the second HIV/AIDS Program Development Project (HPDP 2).

HPDP2 is a project in Nigeria supported by the World Bank within the overall framework of the National Strategic Framework aimed at repositioning prevention of new infection as the major focus of the National HIV/AIDS response as entrenched in the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) 2010-2015. Sadly, the government sees this fund as one of the largess from the international agency that could be used for other developments instead of the HIV/AIDS prevention, regrettably the state will lose this fund due to its glutton and insistence to divert the fund.
Already, Imo State leads other states in the South East in the prevalence rate of the virus and this means nothing to the State government.
More worrisome is the lifestyle of young men and young women in Imo State. Men trade sex, just like every young girl in the state is actively involved in commercial sex.

A study conducted to determine the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS infection in Owerri West L.G.A. Of Imo State, Nigeria, between April 2007 and September, 2009 showed that a total number of 17964 patients made up of 1110 (16.3%) females and 6954 (38.7%) males were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS infection; statistical analysis shows that 1462 (8.1%) patients were infected with HIV/AIDS. From this number, 1218 (83.3%) patients aged 25 years and above were most infected with HIV/AIDS while 244 (16.7%) patients aged below 24 years were also infected.
The State witnessed the highest HIV and AIDS prevalence in 1999 which was 7.8%, in 2001 it dropped to 4.3%, 2003 to 3.1% it rose to 3.9% in 2005, 4.6% in 2008 and 7.5 % in 2014. The State epidemic is a mixed epidemic and factors that aid escalation of HIV and AIDS in the State include high commercial sex rate, low perception of risk of contracting the disease, high use of alcohol, use of psychoactive agents, high mobility of the people, early sexual exposure, multiple sexual partners, gender issues, non-marital sexual relationship and high transactional sex (ERPS, 2008).
With the foregoing, the state will experience a trajectory wave of the HIV/AIDS explosion of probably more than what is being witnessed in the high prevalence states

https://healthcomspringboard.org/discussions/topic/a-new-wave-hivaids-in-imo-state-nigeria/

Bitter dunce. Owerri flyover should be removed completely because it has collapsed before being used.

Now compare the 2. Lol


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Abagworo:
The solution is simply to remove that overload. The curve on that bridge looks rickety anyway.

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It is a worldclass standard flyover. Deal with it

XerXers:
confirming that the flyover is substandard, simple

Abagworo is pissing on himself because his fat governor said the truth.

Abagworo:
This is a map showing HIV prevalence by States. Okorocha said that increase in nightlife being experienced calls for concern in conduct of youths to avert spread of HIV and the OP now wrote rubbiish for his likes to waank on.

Oya nah kill yourself because it already been barricaded


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XerXers:
Lol, Obiano's barricade on federal expressway is the topic not okpa

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You are a hopeless fool. The flyover is standard. The flyover was only barricaded against heavy duty vehicles to avoid containers falling off. Nkpor fly will still be barricaded to avert the situation we see where containers fall.


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XerXers:
A responsible government does not build substandard flyover on a federal expressway. Why is Nkpor not being barricaded?? are there no alternatives there? or is not in the same anambra state? The barricade has nothing to do with accident prevention but fear of collapse

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Lol..how can I discuss what your okpa brain cannot understand?


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XerXers:
Okpa, the greatest food invented in human history, tell us federal road that was barricaded.

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Go and eat okpa. You know nothing about federal and state roads.

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XerXers:
Nobody barricade a federal expressway, it is that simple. Even the lights are an obstruction that should be dismantled as observed by Ngige

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Passion, a responsible government can barricade a federal road against heavy duty vehicle so far as there is an alternative route and in this case an alternative route is provided for.

XerXers:
Nobody barricade a federal expressway, it is that simple

Probably safety does not matter to you because it is a federal road. Did you look at pictures I showed you and how the governor is being proactive?

XerXers:
"FEDERAL EXPRESSWAY" is the keyword here

Nwokem listen up, barricades are done in places where there is alternative routes. Go to some areas in Lagos they are now adopting it to avert future incidents of container falling or heavy duty vehicle accidents on the flyovers. It is something that is done for safety of motorists and not because of anything else. Just look at the container on the Awka flyover, you could even notice that it is already about to fall off if care is not taken. The governor is just being proactive. Look at the pictures below of my earlier scenario


1. Lagos

2. Awka

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XerXers:
have you ever seen any barricade on a federal expressway??

Omenka, I don;t know how else to explain this. I have been there several times so I know what am talking about.

omenkaLives:
Your picture even validates my reservations more. He beams aren't directly connected the pillars but the deck itself. Under sheer strain, they can easily cave in, but there can't be any sheer strain on them because the pillar inbetween them has taken all that weight. In addition, who makes such a combo of materials when building a "suspension" bridge? Pillars are made of reinforced concrete while the beams of the hangers are made of steel! It is even likely those beans are made of aluminium to reduce the sheer weight of the entire structure and the stress on the pillars. Please help me find out.

Uniformity/homogeneity matters alot when dealing with weights in engineering brother!

Look at the picture closely, you will see that the hanger were placed on the beam which equally transferred the load to the pillars down to the substructure. I am not an engineer but this is clear to even a bricklayer.It was directly placed on the same direction with the pillars which makes it very okay. You can equally see how the pillar is overlapped by the hanger.

omenkaLives:
I beg to disagree.

Now, when you look at the two beams from which the hangers run, you'd see that they aren't even far apart, and to make matters worse, there is a pillar inbetween them holding the weight of the deck. in addition, the beams appear to be a separate structure entirely, originating FROM THE DECK ITSELF when they should be integral pars of the columns themselves! Come on, go designs stuff like that?

The weight of the deck, from the structural design, is distributed only between the pillars/columns and the hangers aren't really holding any weight due to the proximity of the pillars.

That is what I can see.

Passion, be reasonable enough to show us the said bridge

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XerXers:
Click on the link, your governor said that. Where is our money

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Listen my friend, it is not about being above or under. The point is knowing that wawa is a word that belongs to Enugu state people. For the records the bridge does not have any issue considering the pictures already posted here to fault the OP. The reason for the barricade for heavy duty vehicle is because of the scenario I painted up there with pictures from Lagos and Awka flyovers. I don't enjoy fighting with your state or it's people because of affinity in some ways which is personal to me. Let us keep it at that.

XerXers:
hehehe thank you for accepting that WaWa is above you for your childish e-wars. Wawa is Enugu and Enugu is Wawa. Calling Enugu wawa is not the issue, calling wawa people instead of addressing obiae, and running away from an afonja that challenged him with Ogun state flyover

Forget about what is written and show me the damn bridge. I can as well write something similar and post it here as evidence without showing the actual bridge.

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XerXers:
Where is our money?? . Hear Obiano himself
https://www.nairaland.com/3249977/anambra-over-1-billion-barrels

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You are really not making sense. Whether he calls you wawa while you are pooing or while you are collapsing into coma, it does not matter, what matters is that ''wawa'' as a nomenclature belongs to your people though I don't know if Nsukka area where you come from adopts that too. Sincerely I don't fancy e-war with your state or people because I don't enjoy it the way I do for say eg, Imo state.

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XerXers:
Enugu state is Wawa state, calling Enugu wawa is not the problem, the problem is calling on wawa people for Obiano's collapsing flyover

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Below was the picture during construction. The weight of the hangers are transferred to the beam that joins the pillar to the substructure. This is done to spread the load and still provide the aesthetics. It was well thought out from the beginning.

omenkaLives:
I was hoping to see our engineers in the house point to this but have been disappointed no one ever did. happy to see someone finally noticed it.

I'm not an engineer but when I saw the design of the bridge, being an avid fan of National Geographic, I couldn't stop scratching my head when I heard people call the bridge a "suspension" bridge! I have seen countless number of suspension bridges and known for a fact the hangers are meant to suspend the deck, running from pillars poles apart. But in this case, the hangers don't even seen to be holding any weight at all but rather seem be be in place just for aesthetics, and the bulk weight week to be overwhelming the pullers doing the actual weight lifting.

this is a fatal design flaw if you ask me, and this is no "suspension" bridge for the hangers aren't really what is holding the deck but the pillars beneath the deck are.

You should have spared the energy you are using to typing rubbish here to urge your governor in Abia state. Nice you copied my username

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ruggedised:
lol, chino ever ready to blast anyone that tackles anambra state. Can't u be neutral for once
Nice u copied my moniker
I'm not ready for e-war today

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You are the ones suffering inferiority complex if not you wouldn't feel insulted because someone called you wawa. Is 'wawa'' not a nomenclature from your state? Why then are you ashamed of it?

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XerXers:
Inferiority COmplex is the keyword. They like picking childish fights, look at how Obiano started unnecessary and very petty fight with okorocha. He was brought to Enugu and taught simple decorum

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Clown show us the bridge we shall pay for?

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XerXers:
keep quiet and pay us our arrears

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He is billed to inspect it 100 times because there is none to even inspect in your cursed Abia state.

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ruggedised:
how many times will he inspect this uncompleted roads U guys should not vex me oooo

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You are just a clown. You didn't make any sense at all. Show us the said bridge. See another heavy infrastructure under 2yrs of no noise. This is the 2nd Oil rig bridge.

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XerXers:
Ugwuanyi will two years in May, A bridge in Enugu state is what you people have been using for almost ten years to acess the glorified borehole you drilled in kogi land , you will pay us in arrears

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Who is Chinonso? Your fellow Abian is busy telling you what is happening in your cursed state but you are busy yelling.

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Oviconji:
Chinonso, you are a shameless Willie Obiano slave. You and your boss are going to be kicked out this year for sure. Mark my words. Your propaganda has failed.

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What do you know that you want to discuss this empty head with ear like Antelop.

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Kingsley1000:
don't worry you're too young to know what the discussion entails

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chidiebere aka oviconji, nwabekeyi, betterabiastate etc, come food don land.

Typical Imo state prostitute, you are even online to market your wares. Cheap harlot.

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Amarabae:
The typical Anambra noisemaker.
Get ready for a ban.
Always fighting other south eastern state.

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It is okay. Stop fighting Enugu state. My problem with you is that you always start this e-war stuff even when unprovoked. Allow people to find your trouble first before you strike.

nonsobaba:
It is you Wawa people who are actually fighting Anambra by subtly taking sides with enemies who are envious of our successes, thinking we won't notice. I have busted two of ur people here before in a sting operation. You guys don't pull the trigger but you supply the bullets.

It is Ok. Just leave them to continue on their thread. Abeg

nonsobaba:
I told you before that these wawa ppl are chameleons. I hope you can see it clearly now.

You fool just shut up because you are part of the problem here.

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Amarabae:
instead of you to caution him,you sided him.
Always hating good news in other south eastern states.

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