THE Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated a one year roadmap National HIV Treatment and Prevention of mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, to galvanise Nigeria’s HIV treatment efforts towards achieving the 90-90-90 targets.
The 90-90-90 is a targets set by Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) to ensure that by 2020, 90 per cent of all people living with HIV know their HIV status.
The UNAIDS also targets that 90 per cent of all people diagnosed of HIV received sustained anti-retroviral therapy, 90 per cent of the people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.
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Inaugurating the programme, Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said the roadmap will enable government to provide leadership and ownership of HIV response programme as well as focus more on…
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