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FG Launches Indicator on HIV / AIDS, Impact Study
– June 29, 2018
Fred Ezeh, Abuja
The federal government on Thursday launched the. Survey of Indicators and Impacts of HIV / AIDS (NAIIS), which they say would end the era of "guessing work" in terms of burden of HIV disease in Nigeria.
The survey would be conducted by experts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States. United States of America, in at least 170,000 households in Nigeria and would be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Agency for AIDS Control (NACA).
It would undoubtedly be passed on to NACA and other stakeholders
President Muhammadu Buhari, who launched the project in Abuja, revealed that foreign donor partners had withdrawn their financial and logistical interventions in because of the lack of a reliable statistical document with regard to the country's status. He urged state governments and all other stakeholders to support the survey so that it can produce accurate and accurate data on the infection and treatment of HIV / AIDS in Nigeria.
Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said the success of the project would wipe out the shame of not having accurate records of people living with the virus in Nigeria.
"He will also report on the resources committed so far in the fight, and"
NACA Director General, Dr. Sani Aliyu, revealed that Nigeria was the second largest burden of HIV in the world with 3.2 million people living with the virus
He said that the available records indicated that about 600 Nigerians were infected with the virus daily, adding, "Two-thirds of new infections HIV in West and Central Africa occurred in Nigeria in 2016. We also provided the highest number of HIV-infected infants in the world, one in four newborns born with HIV in the world. the world in 2016 was a Nigerian. "
Dr. Aliyu worried that despite several interventions, the number of people on drug treatment has increased from about 100,000 to over one million, and hospitals offering treatment have significantly increased.
He was optimistic that the survey that would take about four weeks in each state would give a clearer picture of the status and spread of HIV / AIDS, and hepatitis B and C.
The US ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, confirmed that the US government has committed $ 110 million to the project, which appears to be the largest survey on the response to HIV / AIDS and HIV / AIDS. hepatitis in the world.
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