The Nation Newspaper HIV/AIDS: NACA to tackle mother-to-child transmission frontally
The Federal government has pledged to tackle head-on the issue of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, aligning with the global goal to eliminate the disease as an epidemic in the country by 2030., Nigeria still grapples with the highest burden of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, despite concerted efforts by the government and its partners.
To achieve this goal, she urged pregnant women to utilize healthcare facilities nationwide staffed with trained personnel for comprehensive care and medication. “This is to ensure that our mothers and our women are educated and informed that they should visit health centres when they are pregnant; health centres where they have trained personnel to take the delivery because most of the transmission takes place perinatally.
“We’re going to reach out not only to the health workers, we are even going to mission homes, our religious leaders, traditional leaders, the birth attendants will not be left behind.“We therefore call on everybody to come on board and try to stem the tide of HIV AIDS and meet the target that says by 2030, HIV AIDS should no longer be a public health threat and to eliminate the epidemic”.
She said: “On the national response which you are very familiar with, I know Oyo State has domesticated the political declaration that talks about 95-95-95, whereby 95% of the general population should be tested and know their status and 95% of these people should be on medication and treatment while 95% of them should have viral suppression.
“It is commendable that Oyo State has the Gender and Stigmatization law in place, working with other relevant agencies with lots of discrimination agenda in the gender issues in the area of HIV AIDS”.
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