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Ante-natal Care

NGO wants HIV test as component of routine ante- natal care

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Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOML-PforR), a non-governmental organization has advocated the inclusion of HIV/AIDS as a key component of routine ante -natal care. National Programme Manager, SOML-PforR, Dr. Ibrahim Kana, made the suggestion at the end of a six-day training for field officers handling data collection for the national nutrition and health […]

Antenatal care: Key to preventing mother-to-child transmission

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A 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu, sometime in January slumps in his father’s lap, head pressed against his chest. Infected at birth with human immunodeficiency virus (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 […]