President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday launched a N62 billion trust fund to help Nigeria end AIDS as a public health threat and place more people living with HIV on treatment annually. Speaking at the launch of...
Human clinical trials have started for an experimental HIV vaccine that uses the same kind of mRNA technology found in Moderna’s successful COVID-19 vaccine, the drug company has announced. The company was quoted in a statement...
President Muhammadu Buhari has canvassed for a renewed global action to decisively address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African region and eliminate the disease by 2030. In a statement by Spokesman Femi Adesina, Buhari spoke at...
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday launched a $890m Global Fund to support the country fight against HIV-AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from 2021 to 2023. Launching the Fund virtually at the State House in Abuja, Buhari said it...
Country Representative, Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), Erasmus Morah says no fewer than 1.6 million Nigerians died of HIV/AIDS since the outbreak of the epidemic in 1985. Morah spoke during a Candlelight Memorial...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has reported in its latest quarterly factsheet that Akwa Ibom and Benue have the highest number of HIV positive persons in the country. According to the report,...