At the least 94,141 pregnant women are said to be HIV/AIDS
positive in Zamfara. A United States Agency for International Aids (USAID)
funded programme said this through Management Services for Health Organisation
the USAID Prevention and Organisational Systems-AIDS Care and Treatment
(PRO-ACT).
The team leader of the organisation, Mr Aminu Sarki, spoke
at the end of a seven-year treatment and support rolling plan for those living
with HIV in the state in Gusau on Thursday.
Sarki said more than 500 women living with HIV received
anti-retroviral drugs in the state during the period.
He said 4,436 persons living with HIV in the state were
cared for by his organisation.
He explained that the project was aimed at strengthening the
capacity of the country’s public, private and community sectors for sustainable
HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevention, control, care and treatment within the
health system.
He said his organisation had succeeded in providing services
at four comprehensive care and treatment sites as well as trained health
personnel in 19 Management Sciences for Health (MSH) supported facilities in
injection, safety and waste management.
He said as the project was winding up in the state by
November, there was need for the state government to takeover and continue in
order to eliminate HIV in the state.
While applauding the services rendered by the organisation
in the state, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Abdullahi
Shinkafi, assured that the state government would soon study and takeover in
order to sustain the programme.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the project
was conducted in the five states of Niger, Kwara, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara.
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