Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has reported a steep decline in condom distribution in Nigeria, stating that it fell by 55 per cent over the past year as the global HIV response faces what the agency describes as its most serious setback in decades. Releasing its 2025 World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption, […]
…Says the country records 267,000 new cases in children The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that Nigeria is responsible for 24 per cent of global burden of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the world. Quoting the UNAIDS report of 2017, Dr. Ijaodola Olugbenga, Assistant Director, National Aids and STIs Control Programme, (NASCF) in […]
More than 205 women from UNAIDS Offices across the world, from every level and every continent, have dismissed speculations of sexual harassment in the organisation. This is contained in a statement from UNAIDS made available to journalists by Mr Charles-Martin Jjuuko, Communications and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement quoted […]
*Urges them to check cases of malpractices by private hospitals Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, has tasked private medical institutions in Nigeria to make treatments affordable and accessible by reducing the high cost of their services in the country. Speaking while playing host to the officials of the Association of General and Private […]
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) says it will suppress HIV by 2020. In a statement on Thursday in Abuja by the Communication and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, Charles-Martin Jjuuko, Communication and Global Outreach Officer, UNAIDS Nigeria, the group had organised a one-day seminar on suppression of the disease under the […]