KSACA provides conducive working environment for HIV partners
Director General, Kano State Agency for the Control of AIDS (KSACA), Dr. Usman Bashir, has expressed readiness to provide conducive working atmosphere to any partner in order to achieve zero HIV prevalence in the state.
He made the statement when a delegation from Friends for Global Health Initiative in Nigeria (FGHIN) led by Dr. Usman Gebi, paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
Dr. Bashir said that the benefit of partnership with FGHIN on provision of comprehensive care to people living with HIV, could not be overemphasized, adding that their support has saved many patients from suffering.
The director general assured them that the new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in pipeline between the two organizations comes at a time when the state government under Governor Dr. Abdullah Umar Ganduje is committed to reform and upgrade healthcare delivery in the state.
He reiterated that the agency is capable to accommodate any programme aimed at controlling the HIV/AIDS in the state, adding that KSACA could continue facilitating the activities before the new MoU actualise.
He told the visitors that a comprehensive HIV Development Strategic Plan for five year (2017_2022) was drafted, assuring that the agency is determined to make it possible and implementable.
Dr. Usman said that within one year of his leadership, about 2,000 personnel were trained on HCT, PMCTC, Monitoring and Evaluation as well as health workers on safeguard programs, adding that new hands were included in the training whom previously do not benefit with a view of manning 494 centres under KSACA.
Earlier, leader of the delegation, Dr. Gebi, said coming of Dr. Bashir as KSACA Director general has achieved a lot of progress and initiatives because of his will, adding that he had made impossible programmes to be possible within a short period of time.
Dr. Gebi said they were at the agency based on three purposes, one to appreciate the state government effort for sustaining public healthcare delivery effectively, secondly to inform the management that the 5-year FGHIN programme in the state is ending this year, hoping that the activities of these years are expected to be properly documented for presentation to funding agency.
The leader of the delegation hoped that KSACA director general will make sure, patients receives all needed services being provided by FGHIN, before the new partner arrive, assuring that ART drugs would be supplied to the centres that would last up to first quarter of 2018.
