Why should I know my HIV status, why should I get tested?
The theme of this year's World AIDS Day is Know Your Status and it brings attention to a key aspect of global fight against HIV - testing. Knowing the HIV status ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Tag: HIV
World AIDS Day: 90% of children living with HIV are in Africa
In the world today, 3 million children and adolescents were living with HIV in 2017 out of which nearly 9 in ten live in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa and Nigeria ...
Thanks to PEPFAR, Nigeria now has a national HIV data repository
Nigeria's new HIV national data repository now receives de-identified patient data from health facilities nationwide Nigeria now has a National Data Repository which is partnership between the Federal Ministry of ...
Why Nigeria still delivers thousands of HIV-positive babies annually
She knew she had HIV yet she went to a birth attendant during labor. Now her baby is HIV-positive. He was delivered less than 2 hours ago, a skinny pale-looking ...
Why more Nigerian women are receiving HIV treatment than men
Among Africa's most populous countries, only Nigeria has more women on HIV treatment than men. Why is this so? In contrast to the findings of several drug compliance studies among ...
77% of all adults living with HIV in Namibia are virally suppressed
In Namibia, 77% of all adults living with HIV are virally suppressed 77% of all adults living with HIV in Namibia are virally suppressed, according to the Namibia Population-Based HIV Impact ...
Teenage girls bear brunt of a far-from-over HIV/AIDS epidemic – UNICEF
30 teenagers aged 15 to 19 were newly infected with HIV per hour in 2017. Of these, two-thirds were girls. This was according to a new UNICEF report. “This is a crisis ...
HIV gender gap is widening in Nigeria
After over 10 years of stability, Nigeria's HIV gender gap is widening and it doesn't favor women According to the recently released Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) report ...
Nigeria’s little progress in HIV is slowing down West and Central Africa
2 out of 3 Nigerians living with HIV are not receiving treatment No thanks to Nigeria's poor performance, West and Central Africa region at its current pace cannot achieve global ...
