IHVN Calls For Sustained Efforts To Achieve HIV Epidemic Control

The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has called connected radical surviving with HIV to stay committed to their prescribed medications to support bully wellness and assistance Nigeria execute power of the HIV epidemic.

IHVN’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Dakum, who stated this successful Abuja, reiterated that HIV services, including testing, treatment, laboratory diagnosis, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission, are provided escaped of complaint crossed galore nationalist and backstage wellness facilities successful the country.

Dr. Dakum stressed the value of attraction adherence, noting that escaped HIV services are presently disposable successful much than 380 IHVN-supported wellness facilities crossed the Federal Capital Territory, Nasarawa, Katsina, and Rivers States.

He said ths services see escaped HIV testing, antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and children, laboratory services for diagnosis and monitoring, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) for large women.

“At present, implicit 238,000 individuals person escaped antiretroviral attraction successful IHVN-supported wellness facilities, and astatine nary clip were these life-saving services disrupted,” helium added.

IHVN, supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) done the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continues to prolong indispensable HIV services successful collaboration with the Nigerian government.

Dr. Dakum besides emphasised the availability of broad prevention services, including escaped Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV-negative large and breastfeeding women, and escaped Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for individuals precocious exposed to the virus.

On assemblage engagement, Dr. Dakum highlighted IHVN’s initiatives to grow HIV services and forestall mother-to-child transmission done partnerships with faith-based organisations and assemblage leaders. These see Group Mothers’ Love Gatherings, which supply wellness services and enactment to large and nursing mothers, and Peer Mentor Mother Programs, which empower women surviving with HIV to enactment 1 another.

He noted that these community-focused programs person enabled caregivers and susceptible groups, including children, adolescents, and young adults, to person broad attraction packages and interventions that amended adherence, nutrition, and wide prime of life.

He commended the Nigerian government’s expanding ownership of HIV programmes, citing notable developments specified arsenic the inclusion of radical surviving with HIV successful wellness security schemes, section accumulation of HIV trial kits, and the forthcoming instauration of the HIV preventive injectable, Lenacapavir.

Dr. Dakum urged continued collaboration among authorities agencies, civilian society, radical surviving with HIV, and the media to prolong advancement and execute nationalist epidemic control.