The Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Gambo Aliyu has revealed how the spread of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), can be stopped in Nigeria.
According to Aliyu, the stop of HIV requires two critical steps which involve mothers.
NACA DG who spoke on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 marking the world AIDS Day said;
“If you want to stop HIV, two things are very critical. Stop mother-to-child transmission. If you eliminate it, you will have a generation free of HIV”.
“If you are giving birth to a generation with HIV, then you are going to stay with HIV for a long time to come because these individuals are just beginning a fresh life and they are likely to stay 50, 60, 70 years alive with HIV in their bodies if we are not successful in getting a cure before then.”
“If it is HIV-Positive, that baby should be protected from having HIV. We can do it, we can prevent that baby from having HIV at the time of delivery, after delivery till the child is 18 months.
“We have some kind of disconnection in the sense that our access to pregnant mothers is limited to those that show up at the facility for an antenatal visit. It may surprise you that half of the pregnant women don’t come for an antenatal visit.”
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