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The Adamawa State Agency for the Control of AIDS (ADSACA) has reported 8,850 caller HIV infections successful the authorities betwixt 2022 and 2025.
Mr Abdullahi Adamu, Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation astatine the agency, disclosed this connected Thursday successful Yola during a media interactive league connected the state’s HIV/AIDS response.
He said the gathering aimed to fortify collaboration with the media to boost nationalist consciousness and promote behavioural alteration successful HIV prevention.
According to him, surveillance information amusement a dependable emergence successful caller HIV infections crossed the authorities successful the past 3 years.
“In 2022, we recorded implicit 2,700 caller infections; successful 2023, much than 2,500; successful 2024, 2,227; and betwixt January and June 2025, we person already recorded 1,423 caller infections,” Adamu said.
He expressed interest implicit the rising inclination contempt the availability of preventive measures, stressing the request for a reappraisal of existing strategies.
“We indispensable restrategise and follow caller approaches that volition deepen nationalist consciousness and beforehand preventive practices.
“We person preventive options specified arsenic abstinence, accordant condom usage and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), but galore radical are not utilizing them effectively,” helium said.
Adamu added that radical surviving with HIV who adhere strictly to their medicine cannot transmit the microorganism and tin unrecorded healthy, productive lives.
He revealed that implicit 40,000 radical surviving with HIV are presently receiving attraction successful Adamawa, with astir 93 per cent achieving viral suppression.
He, however, noted that 400 HIV-related deaths were recorded successful 2024.
Adamu besides called connected large women to registry for antenatal care, stressing that prevention of mother-to-child transmission was captious to reducing caller infections.
“In 2024, 509 large women who registered for antenatal attraction were enrolled connected HIV treatment, retired of which 180 were caller infections.
“Without antenatal attraction and infirmary delivery, immoderate of these mothers could person unknowingly transmitted the microorganism to their babies,” helium said.
He said the authorities authorities had procured implicit 40,000 HIV investigating kits and urged residents to instrumentality vantage of escaped investigating services disposable astatine wellness facilities and assemblage investigating centres.
Also speaking, Mr John Tobias, North-East Zonal Coordinator of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), urged Nigerians to instrumentality ownership of the HIV effect to guarantee sustainability.
Tobias noted that a caller stop-work bid issued by the United States Government successful February affected donor-supported interventions, limiting Nigeria’s capableness to supply attraction and care.
“This is simply a wake-up telephone for america to instrumentality work for our ain wellness and trim dependence connected donor support,” helium said.
He described the 1,423 caller infections recorded successful Adamawa successful the archetypal fractional of 2025 arsenic “avoidable,” adding that effectual attraction remains a cardinal prevention strategy.
“If everyone surviving with HIV is identified and placed connected treatment, determination volition beryllium nary accidental for transmission.
“We indispensable standard up our efforts and enactment towards ending caller HIV infections by 2030,” Tobias said.
He urged journalists to instrumentality progressive roles successful sensitising the nationalist and promoting affirmative behavioural alteration to extremity the epidemic.
The station Adamawa records 8,850 caller HIV infections successful 4 years – Official appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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