ABUJA, Nov. 26, 2019 (BSS/XINHUA) – Nigeria is determined to end the HIV
epidemic by 2030, in line with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
vision, the country’s Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said Monday.
The minister restated Nigeria’s commitment to achieving viral suppression
through what he called “detection, treatment and suppression” at the launch
of a campaign to fight HIV/AIDS by the National Agency for the Control of
AIDS (NACA) in Abuja.
Ehanire highlighted Nigeria’s achievements in HIV treatment interventions,
started in 1986 when the epidemic was first reported in the country.
Gambo Aliyu, head of NACA, expressed his satisfaction with Nigeria’s
achievements in tackling HIV/AIDS as official indicator showed the country’s
HIV prevalence fell from 4.4 percent in 2005 to 1.4 percent in 2018.
He ascribed the success to efforts by communities in partnership with the
government and foreign assistance in the last 15 years.