24/6/08
AIDS orphans get N6m lifeline The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has raised N6 million in support of its Children and AIDS Programme in Nigeria.    more...
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24/6/08
Corps Members Commended Over HIV/AIDS Campaign State Co-coordinator of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs.    more...
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24/6/08
South East Govs' wives set to fight HIV/AIDS Wives of South-eastern governors are in Owerri, Imo State capital, to brainstorm on how to form a national coalition on HIV/AIDS.    more...
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18/1/08
26 Groups granted loans to combat HIV/AIDS
About 26 registered civil society and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Yobe state were given loans to organise HIV/AIDS enlightenment programmes in the state.    more...
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18/1/08
Turai Yar'Adua cautions on HIV/AIDS
The wife of the president, Hajiya Turai Yar'Adua in Yola cautioned Nigerians not to jubilate over the recent report on the decline of HIV and AIDS prevalence in the country.    more...
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18/1/08
Nigerian first Lady launches HIV/AIDS project
The people of Benue State yesterday trooped into Makurdi Airport to receive the wife of President Umaru Yar'Adua, Hajiya Turai, who was in the state to launch the Women Coalition On HIV/AIDS, the pet project of Mrs.    more...
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7/1/08
Adamawa now highest in HIV epidemic-Prof Aminu
Adamawa State now ranks as the highest in HIV/AIDS cases in the country, the Senator representing Adamawa Central, Professor Jubril Aminu has disclosed.    more...
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3/11/07
Japan provides aids to local NGOs Two NGO's, AIDS Network Project, Jikwoyi-Abuja and Ohuhu Ikeala Nsulu Autonomous Community in Abia, have benefited from Japan's generosity with a total amount of USD126,817 for the construction of a Vocational Center for Women and Vulnerable Children, and primary school blocks.    more...
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3/11/07
People living with HIV/AIDS to trek against stigmatization Hundreds of people living with HIV/AIDS, with Governor Babtunde Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State will partake in maiden November and December AIDS road trek tagged "Style born AIDS trek Nigeria 2007" (SART-NIG, 07) in Abuja and Lagos, the initiator and Co-ordinator, Styleborn Magazine, Abiola Afolabi has said.    more...
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3/11/07
190,000 persons infected with HIV/AIDS in Niger
No fewer than 190,000 persons are confirmed to be infected by the dreaded HIV/AIDS disease in Niger State.    more...
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30/8/07
13 rape victims now positive-Obi
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, yesterday said 13 of the secondary school girls raped by miscreants are now HIV positive.    more...
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10/8/07
HIV Test - NACA faults Covenant Varsity Prof.    more...
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10/8/07
Private firms tasked on HIV/AIDS Private organisations have been urged to establish a work place HIV/AIDS and wellness programme for their staff as well as the host community where they operate.    more...
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10/8/07
Ekiti deputy governor pledges support for people with HIV/AIDS
A bill to protect and support People Living with HIV/AIDS in Ekiti State will soon be presented to the legislative House in that state, the deputy governor, Dr.    more...
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1/8/07
HIV/AIDS scourge in Police worries Okiro's wife
Wife of the acting Inspector General of Police, Chief (Mrs) Hera Okiro has lamented the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS among the rank and file of the police force.    more...
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1/8/07
Monarch stops World Bank Scheme for orphans World Bank assisted project on HIV/AIDS yesterday suffered a set back in Oraukwu, Idemili North local government when the traditional ruler, Igwe Emeka Ogbunude halted a poverty alleviation programme for orphans and widows over alleged indebtedness to a community bank by one of the organisers.    more...
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12/7/07
World Bank disburses N30m for HIV/AIDS
World Bank yesterday distributed N30million to 22 Non Governmental Organisations(NGOs), involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Zamfara State.    more...
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11/7/07
WYCA Summit:Women develop HIV/AIDS action plan Delegates on Saturday at the close of the first International Women's Summit on Women's Leadership and HIV and AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya, released a 10-point action plan that aims to foster leadership roles of women and girls in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Nation/AllAfrica.    more...
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11/7/07
Better screening takes the fight to drug-resistant HIV
Scientists in United States have developed a faster and cheaper method of screening for drug-resistant HIV.    more...
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5/7/07
World YWCA Women Leading Change Award recipients announced The World YWCA’s Women Leading Change Awards honour the outstanding leadership of community women in response to HIV and AIDS.    more...
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5/7/07
FG to strengthen fight against HIV/AIDS
Vice-President Jonathan Goodluck and the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar'adua have expressed strong desire to give maximum support to the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.    more...
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12/6/07
Traditional medicine practitioner tasks gov't on HIV/AIDS
A herbal medicine practitioner, Dr.    more...
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12/6/07
PATA gives voice to women with HIV For six women who are openly living positively with HIV, the chance to be a successful participant in the Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) women leadership training programme is a dream come true.    more...
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12/6/07
WHO calls for routine HIV test World Health Organisation (WHO) HIV/AIDS director Kevin de Cock yesterday urged SA to offer routine, confidential HIV testing to all patients at clinics and hospital, in the hope of radically increasing the proportion of people who know their status.    more...
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18/5/07
HIV?AIDS:Group woos South-West clerics
A Lagos-based NGO, Muslim Action Guide Against AIDS, Poverty, Illiteracy and Conflict (MAGA-APIC) said it has been trying to convince the Ulama on the need to support the fight and campaign against the deadly HIV/ AIDS scourge.    more...
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14/5/07
FG approves workplace policy on HIV/AIDS
The Federal Government has approved the National Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS to enhance response to the global pandemic at workplace in the country.    more...
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9/5/07
TB and war against HIV/AIDS
Ibrahim Umoru is a person living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).    more...
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9/5/07
Expert traces source of TB to dairy products’ consumption
Studies have shown that one of the sources of tuberculosis in humans is through the consumption of raw dairy products.    more...
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9/5/07
Treatment centres for HIV/AIDS patients
Akwa Ibom State government has ear-marked three centres in the state for free medical treatment of HIV/AIDS patients in the state.    more...
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3/5/07
Access to HIV treatment grew significantly last year-UN report Countries in every region of the world are making substantial progress in increasing access to HIV treatment, but the goal of achieving universal access by 2010 will remain out of reach unless the pace of growth rises rapidly, according to a joint report from three United Nations agencies published this week.    more...
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3/5/07
BOSG equips hospitals with HIV/AIDS screening machines
The Borno state government has reiterated its commitment to provide all the necessary support required for the screening and treatment of HIV/AIDS in the six centres designated for the treatment of the pandemic.    more...
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5/4/07
FG invests N7bn on HIV/AIDS management
The Federal Government has increased its budget for awareness campaign, prevention, treatment and control of the HIV/AIDS pandemic from N300,000 to a whooping N7 billion over the last eight years.    more...
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5/4/07
Journalists tasked on HIV/AIDS reportage
Journalists have been urged to give priority attention to reportage of issues relating to HIV and Aids, so as to halt and begin to reverse their spread in the country.    more...
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5/4/07
Scientists pose problems to HIV testing,
Laboratory scientists constitute obstacles in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, the International Centre for AIDS Care and Treatment Programme (ICAP) said.    more...
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30/3/07
WHO - 'Male circumcision can aid HIV control efforts' Circumcision has been approved as part of HIV prevention The World Health Organization and UNAIDS now recommend that male circumcision be added to approved interventions to reduce the risk of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men.    more...
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30/3/07
Education, adequate tool to fight HIV/AIDS -Ezekwesili
Minister of Education, Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili Tuesday said adequate education and awareness should be the most effective weapon to curb the nagging problem of HIV/AIDs.    more...
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28/3/07
HIV and AIDS: Nigeria achieves 90% awareness
 

Nigeria has achieved an unprecedented 90 per cent
success in creating awareness about HIV and Aids
through activities of the National Action Committee
on AIDS (NACA) even as President Olusegun Obasanjo
has signed into law the Bill to upgrade the Committee
into a full fledged agency for sustainability.    more...
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23/3/07
Ministry gets Global Fund grant to fight AIDS The Ministry of Labour and two other agencies have been given Global Fund grants through the workplace HIV/AIDS response initiative, to curb the spread and menace of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.    more...
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23/3/07
Government urged to show more commitment to TB control
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world in marking the 2007 World TB Day on Saturday, March 24, the Nigerian government has been urged to exhibit more political commitment in confronting the TB epidemic in the country, the same way it is addressing the HIV and AIDS pandemic.    more...
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20/3/07
NASS Urged on Stigmatisation Members of the Nigeria National Assembly have been called upon to pass into law the bills before it that concern issues of Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)and the Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).    more...
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20/3/07
Obasanjo commends Goldmark, HIV kid activist
For her efforts in creating awareness on the HIV and AIDS pandemic, as well as her desire in making sure that the national and global goals set for the pandemic are achieved by the year 2015, in accordance with the Millenium Development Goals (MDGS), Goldmark Owoola - Adeojo, a kid activist and HIV and Aids educator was recently commended by President Olusegun Obasanjo.    more...
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9/3/07
NACA wants HIV/AIDS facilities for FCT districts
The University of Abuja Teaching Hospital has been called upon by the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) to expand its HIV/AIDS services to neighbouring communities.    more...
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9/3/07
Obasanjo orders employment of 100 medical personnel for HIV programme Against the backdrop of the devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS scourge within the Nigerian military, President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the special employment of 100 medical personnel to help solve the manpower constraint of the Ministry of Defence HIV programme.    more...
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8/3/07
Fighting AIDS through Sharia, poverty alleviation
More than two decades into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, substantial gains have been made in understanding how HIV is transmitted and it effects, including physiological, psychological and socio-economic.    more...
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1/3/07
Issues towards achieving Nigeria's AIDS treatment target in 2007
In a bid to ensure that the treatment target for HIV/AIDS Persons as set by the government is achieved this year, stakeholders in the Nigeria's HIV/Aids community have highlighted ways through which the target can be realized towards ensuring that 250,000 Nigerians living with HIV/Aids are able to access quality treatment, care and support by the end of 2007.    more...
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14/2/07
Valentine-Groups caution youths on HIV/AIDS
Ahead of preparations for the celebration of Saint Valentine's day, groups campaigning against HIV/AIDS yesterday cautioned youths against using the occasion to engage in unhealthy sexual practices.    more...
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14/2/07
Country donates $10 million to Global Fund's fight against pandemics President Olusegun Obasanjo has announced Nigeria's donation of $10 million to the Global Fund in the fight against the pandemics of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.    more...
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14/2/07
HIV/AIDS - African GSM groups, US in $10m deal Ten African countries including Nigeria, are to benefit from a partnership deal worth $10million between the GSM Association, leading players in the mobile telecommunications sector and the United States government to use the mobile phone to combat the HIV/Aids scourge ravaging the globe.    more...
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6/2/07
NGO holds free HIV test in army barracks, prisons
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) on AIDS counselling and testing recently carried out a free counselling and HIV status test on soldiers from the 177 Guards Battalion, Keffi.    more...
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6/2/07
'10 percent residents are HIV positive' Project Secretary, Kwara State Action Committee on AIDS, Mr J.    more...
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1/2/07
HIV centre opens in Kubwa
The HIV centre of the St.    more...
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31/1/07
Missionary stands up against HIV stigma
A 41-year-old father of two yesterday told the world he is living with HIV at the official opening of a clinic in Kubwa village.    more...
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19/1/07
Zero infant formula causes loss of children to HIV/AIDS Some executive members of Rivers of Hope, a support group of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Rivers State have lamented endlessly over the loss of their children to HIV/AIDS as a result of lack of infant formula.    more...
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19/1/07
Men responsible for spread of HIV/AIDS – Osotimehin
The Chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Prof.    more...
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19/1/07
FACA holds workshop for AIDS support groups
A three-day training workshop on 'national response information management system for monitoring and evaluation officers of various HIV/AIDS organisation,' began yesterday in Abuja.    more...
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12/1/07
Free treatment for HIV pregnant women available
 

The Federal Government yesterday charged all HIV positive pregnant women across the country to insist on receiving free anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) as well as free child delivery services in all government hospitals.    more...
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12/1/07
Presidency commends National HIV Response...as NACA counts blessings
Health activities at Federal government level in the area of anti-HIV/AIDS activities had tremendous gain in 2006.    more...
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29/12/06
NAFDAC arrests ex-deputy Gov. for HIV test kits fraud
The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has arrested the former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Dr.    more...
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29/12/06
Bayelsa blames high rate of HIV cases on oil companies
Bayelsa State government has blamed the oil industry operating in the state for the high rate of HIV/AID cases promising to go into partnership with an American firm to produce its own brand of condom for its population with a view to reducing the spread of the virus in the predominantly riverine state.    more...
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29/12/06
World Bank disburses N69m to NGOs in Zamfara The World Bank has disbursed N69 million to 22 NGOs working on the control and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Zamfara State.    more...
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11/12/06
Benue HIV/AIDS control programme gulps N577m Benue State, rated with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the country, says it has spent N577 million on measures to combat the disease in the last four years.    more...
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11/12/06
RIVSACA set to launch HIV/AIDS action plan The Rivers State Action Cmmittee on AIDS (RIVSACA) is putting finishing touches on the state strategic plan for the control of HIV/AIDS epidemic slated for presentation in December.    more...
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11/12/06
Malaria may help the spread of HIV
Despite intensified efforts to curb malaria in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa the tropical scourge could be contributing to the spread of HIV in the sub region by making carriers more likely to pass it on to their sexual partners.    more...
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29/11/06
Gender disparity worsens spread of HIV - Ekweremadu
Gender inequality has been recognised as a major setback facing the nation in combating the spread of HIV and AIDS in the country.    more...
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29/11/06
NGO takes HIV campaign to children As part of efforts to combat the spread of HIV in the country, an NGO, KidCare, has embarked on massive enlightenment of children to avoid getting infected.    more...
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29/11/06
Osotimehin seeks regional unity against AIDS The need to pay more attention to the HIV and AIDS situation across the Abidjan-Lagos Transport Corridor has been re-emphasised as a way of stemming the tide of the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.    more...
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21/11/06
Information touch screens debut for HIV/AIDS
Every day, researches have been ongoing across the world on the best way to spread awareness on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.    more...
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20/11/06
Kubwa residents urged to unite for AIDS
Members of the Kubwa community in Abuja are being invited to unite and attend an open day at the Daughters of Charity on December 1, 2006 to mark the World Aids Day.    more...
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20/11/06
Fake test kits:Dep.Gov declared Wanted by NAFDAC National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared former Akwa Ibom State Deputy governor, Obong Christopher Ekpenyong wanted.    more...
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17/11/06
MTN spends N300 million to fight HIV/AIDS
Ahead of the 2006 MTN Lagos International Half Marathon, which has been dedicated to the fight against the scourge of HIV/AIDS under the theme Move ahead.    more...
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14/11/06
Know your HIV status,muslim youths advised
President, Islamic Network for Development (IND), Alhaja Oshodi, has advised Muslim youths to find out their HIV status, as they prepare for marital life.    more...
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10/11/06
NACA joins MTN marathon
The National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) has joined the train of corporate bodies and government partners collaborating with Nigeria's foremost telephony service provider, MTN to put the fight against the scourge of HIV/AIDS on the front burner of national discourse through the 2006 Lagos International Half Marathon.    more...
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7/11/06
Chevron takes HIV/AIDS campaign to varsities
A disturbing picture of HIV/AIDS prevalence was painted yesterday by the Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr Fred Nelson, who said 5.    more...
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3/11/06
CLAP builds health,HIV/AIDS centre for community
Residents of Aso 'C' in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State will now enjoy improved health care delivery services following the launching of a healthcare centre for maternal and child health.    more...
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2/11/06
Bayelsa to pay PLWH N10,000 Monthly,free drugs
Governor Goodluck Jonathan of Bayelsa State has affirmed the administration's determination to come up with a master plan for the development of Yenogoa, the state capital even as he has taken education as the first priority of his government.    more...
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1/11/06
Engaging communities against HIV/AIDS The recent visit by the United State Embassy in Nigeria and the Families Alive, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), based in Lagos to Olurunda Development Centre and Oko Afo/Magbon communities, all in Badagry Local Government Area (LGA), was a follow up to an earlier understanding both organisations had with the people of the areas.    more...
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1/11/06
Now, employers can't shut gates against PLWA
Members of the Nigerian delegation due to leave for Geneva, Switzerland, in a couple of days, have cause to beat their chests.    more...
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25/10/06
PLWH gets pseudoymn for prosecution
In 2002, Centre for the Right to Health filed a case in the Lagos High Court, on behalf of an HIV positive woman who was denied access to treatment by a government-owned hospital in Lagos, when she visited for treatment.    more...
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23/10/06
Minister pledges more commitment towards HIV/AIDS,TB reduction
Minister of health, Prof Eyitayo Lambo has pledged more commitment towards combating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in the country.    more...
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20/10/06
U.S. Consulate counsels visa lottery applicants
United States Consulate in Lagos has urged Nigerians to carefully fill the 2007 Diversity Visa Lottery forms to ensure higher success and selection rates while stating that Poeple living with HIV/AIDS should forget about applying.    more...
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19/10/06
Death of HIV/AIDS crusader
THE sun suddenly set for Omololu Falobi, journalist and Founder/Executive Director of Journalists Against AIDS, a non-governmental organisation, that creates awareness on the deadly HIV/AIDS, the other week.    more...
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19/10/06
'Nollywood' joins fight against HIV
Actors and filmmakers from 'Nollywood' - as Nigeria's film industry is colloquially known - have come out in support of the fight against HIV/AIDS.    more...
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13/10/06
Tears as slain Falobi, HIV/AIDS activist goes home
Tears flowed freely yesterday as the remains of the co-ordinator of Journalists Against AIDS (JAAID) , Mr.    more...
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13/10/06
Unmask Falobi's killers, NGE tasks security agencies
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has tasked security agencies to unmask the killers of a journalist, Mr.    more...
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13/10/06
UNAIDS loses one of its most active African NGO collaborators to violence
One of United Nations' most dedicated collaborators combating HIV/AIDS in Africa was killed in an armed robbery on his way home in the Nigerian commercial capital, Lagos, after a speaking engagement promoting social responsibility, officials said today.    more...
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3/10/06
MBGN,others Dance4 life Nigeria is among the countries using dance in the HIVAIDS awareness campaign.    more...
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3/10/06
Aminu Kano Teaching hospital to cater for over 3000 PLWH
The chief medical director of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Dr.    more...
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22/9/06
HIV/AIDS textbook for senior secondary launched
An Introductory textbook on HIV/AIDS educationThe book, written by Mr Uwem Useh, a social crusader and community mobiliser and approved by the Federal Ministry of Education, for use in senior secondary schools in the country has been launched in Abuja.    more...
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22/9/06
Bayelsa inaugurates committee to draft bill on HIV/AIDS Bayelsa State government has inaugurated a committee to prepare a bill on HIV / AIDS.    more...
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20/9/06
AIDS cases in Gombe drops-Goje The Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammad Danjuma Goje has disclosed that the rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the state has dropped from 8.    more...
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20/9/06
Project promotes informed HIV/AIDS coverage in Yoruba and Ogu
How would you explain terms like 'viral load' or 'CD4 Count' in Yoruba (the language widely-spoken among peoples of south-west Nigeria), or in Ogu (the langage of indigenous populations of Lagos and Ogun States of Nigeria)?

This was the challenge confronted by Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria and the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA)in a just-concluded project on
community media mobilisation on HIV and AIDS.    more...
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12/9/06
Redefining Morality
At the last International AIDS Conference in Toronto, I was at a session where the issue of us redefining morality came up and the views in that room were so diverse it would have been comical if we weren't talking serious life and death issue like HIV infection and human lives.    more...
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11/9/06
Parents unite to fight teenage prostitution in Jigawa
The growing number of prostitutes that have led to an increase in brothel business is becoming a source of concern to parents in Jigawa state, according to Pyramid Trust investigations.    more...
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11/9/06
Bayelsa inaugurates committee to draft bill on HIV/AIDS
Bayelsa State government has inaugurated a committee to prepare a bill on HIV/AIDS.    more...
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6/9/06
Universal access: New push from African civil society Thirty representatives from the African Civil Society Coalition on HIV and AIDS attended the International AIDS Conference in Toronto to push forward the agenda on universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for all Africans.    more...
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4/9/06
Roundtable suggest strategies for scaling-up demand for treatment
With less than four months to the end of 2006,the plan to place 250,000 people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Nigeria remains a grandiose dream.    more...
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31/8/06
USAID and HIV/AIDS diplomacy I am commencing this piece on a premise that a global, synergistic loop is set in motion among nations, whenever a developed country like the United States of America decides to play the big brother to the less developed countries of the world. United States is not a Santa claus, therefore whenever she plays the big brother, she endeavours to confine it to the limits of her strategic economic and security interest, and rightly so.    more...
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31/8/06
FHI to end microbicides trial in Nigeria Family Health International (FHI) has announced that it plans to stop a study being conducted in Nigeria to determine whether a vaginal microbicide gel, Savvy, is safe and effective for reducing women's risk of acquiring HIV infection.    more...
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30/8/06
Ministry of Education conludes plan for HIV/AIDS response
Minister of state for education Sayyadi Ruma says the ministry will vigorously engage in the fight against HIV/AIDS pandemic in primary and secondary schools in the country.    more...
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22/8/06
AIDS2006:Gov'ts harshly berated at close of AIDS meet
Action -- not promises or pledges or more meetings -- is what will bring the HIV/AIDS pandemic under control and save tens of millions of lives, concluded delegates at the wrap-up of the 16th annual International AIDS Conference in Toronto Friday.    more...
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22/8/06
AIDS2006:Unprotected doctors, afraid of getting HIV, deny care to patients
While the majority of Nigerian health care professionals comply with ethical obligations and do not deny care or treatment to People Living With AIDS (PLWA), a disturbing number of health care professionals engage in discriminatory behavior toward treatment and care of PLWA, according to a new study released today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).    more...
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22/8/06
AIDS2006: Activists must be allowed to take on leadership roles - ActionAid
ActionAid says that people who live with and are affected by HIV and Aids should be counted as the real leaders in the fight against Aids.    more...
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22/8/06
AIDS2006:Resistant sex workers have their genes to thank
Kenya's apparently HIV-resistant commercial sex workers have their genes to thank for it, a report presented at the 16th International Aids Conference in Toronto says.    more...
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18/8/06
AIDS2006:Grassroots AIDS activists get their due
Behind the glamor and glare of the spotlight on the big names attending the International AIDS Conference, there are thousands of little-known stars who are out in the trenches everyday, fighting the battle against AIDS.    more...
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18/8/06
AIDS2006:New study reveals discrimination by health professionals against People Living with HIV/AIDS
While the majority of Nigerian health care professionals comply with ethical obligations and do not deny care or treatment to People Living With AIDS (PLWA), a disturbing number of health care professionals engage in discriminatory behavior toward treatment and care of PLWA, according to a new study released today by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).    more...
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18/8/06
AIDS2006:Sex Workers March for Rights at AIDS Conference
Sex workers and their supporters from 21 countries marched on Wednesday through the 16th International AIDS Conference to demand their own place not only at the conference, but in their own societies.    more...
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18/8/06
AIDS2006:HIV treatment on the rise but number of Africans on ART well below WHO target More than a million people in sub-Saharan Africa are on the drugs used for treating HIV that until a few years ago were the exclusive preserve of the rich, it was announced yesterday.    more...
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17/8/06
AIDS2006:Zimbabwe is reversing HIV/AIDS prevalence without money?
Many delegates gathered in Toronto have been complaining about the lack of funds to fight HIV/AIDS.    more...
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17/8/06
AIDS2006:Selenium improves ART response in Nigerian randomised study
Selenium supplementation significantly improved CD4 cell responses to antiretroviral treatment in a large randomised Nigerian study presented on Monday August 14th at the Sixteenth International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada.    more...
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17/8/06
AIDS2006:UNICEF staff bags IAS Young Investigators Awards
Penelope Campbell, National Officer in charge of HIV/AIDS and Adolescents with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Jamaica, Monday won the International AIDS Society’s Young Investigator Prize for her work on women, girls and HIV/AIDS.    more...
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15/8/06
AIDS2006:Put power to prevent HIV in the hands of women,says Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates today called upon world leaders to “put the power to prevent HIV in the hands of women” by accelerating the search for microbicides and other new HIV prevention tools.    more...
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15/8/06
AIDS2006:Bush accused of undermining Africa's AIDS prevention policies
George Bush's millions going to abstinence-only HIV prevention programmes, many in Africa, has been slammed as insipient neo-colonialism and illegitimate by a fiery Stephen Lewis of the United Nations.    more...
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15/8/06
AIDS2006: Humanity needs to work together to defeat AIDS - Gates Defeating AIDS will not be the success of one great scientist, one great community worker, or one great leader, but the accomplishment of the whole human family working together for one another.    more...
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10/8/06
LUTH, Baby Eniola and public healthcare
The Federal Government, last week, sent the Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof.    more...
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9/8/06
SSANU votes N30m to fight HIV/AIDS
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), has committed N30 million to battle against HIV/AIDS in all Nigerian universities.    more...
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9/8/06
Shell collaborates with the media on HIV/AIDS in the Niger Delta
Since the first case of AIDS was recorded in Nigeria, there has been a gradual but steady increase in the number of people testing positive to the pandemic.    more...
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9/8/06
NAFDAC investigates HIV cure claim
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is currently investigating allegation of unethical clinical practice of HIV on patients by a professor.    more...
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7/8/06
Condom use reduces HIV prevalence
The reduction in the spread of HIV in Ogun and Osun states has been  attributed partly to increased use of condom in the states.    more...
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3/8/06
Baby Eniola:Govt sacks LUTH helmsman, seven others
About three months to the end of his tenure, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof.    more...
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3/8/06
Don asks religious bodies to advocate use of condoms
Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (UNEC), Professor Peter Ebigbo, has advised faith-based organizations to advocate the use of condom as an effective way of checking the spread of HIV/AIDS rather than preach abstinence from sex.    more...
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2/8/06
Women should be cautious in using Lime juice against HIV - Experts
Women in some African cultures have used lemon or limejuice for contraception and vaginal hygiene purposes for centuries, according to African Microbicides Advocacy Group, (AMAG) And this is more so now in some countries, with HIV prevalence in the society, as AMAG stated that studies in Nigeria and elsewhere showed that some women also believe that lemon or lime juice might protect them against HIV infection.    more...
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1/8/06
Display condoms or be closed down, Duke warns hotel operators
Apparently determined to wage serious war against the prevalence of HIV//AIDS in the state, the Cross River State government has directed all hotels operating in the state to display condoms in their chalets or face the risk of being shut down.    more...
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28/7/06
'Level of stigmatisation,denial still high in Nigeria'
Despite widespread advocacy about HIV/AIDS and the need to combat stigmatization against victims of the disease as a neccessary step for steming mortality level nationwide, Mrs.    more...
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21/7/06
HIV Infection - Panel submits report on Baby Eniola
The panel of inquiry set up four weeks ago by the Federal Government to look into the remote and immediate circumstances leading to the transfusion of HIV infected blood into Baby Eniola, a minor at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) yesterday submitted its report to the Federal Government.    more...
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21/7/06
HIV/AIDS - Young criticises donation to Africa Former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador Andrew Young, yesterday criticised the $15 billion spent by donor countries to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, saying the hefty sum would have been more beneficial to the continent if it was channeled to agriculture, healthcare, water and electricity.    more...
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21/7/06
More ARV sites but some areas neglected - Report
Nigeria has the third highest number of HIV-positive people in the world

Nigeria is rolling out anti-AIDS drugs to a growing number of people living with HIV/AIDS, but getting hold of the medication is still a major struggle for those living outside key urban centres.    more...
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20/7/06
HIV: The treatment question
The present government may have been the most active on HIV/AIDS in the country’s history.    more...
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18/7/06
2005 sentinel survey:Benue, Akwa Ibom most HIV endemic States
Benue State has the higest incidence of HIV cases in the country with 10.    more...
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18/7/06
Govt meets 24 per cent AIDS treatment target
Government's target of placing 250,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) on Anti-retroviral (ARV) drug programme June 2006 has not been realised.    more...
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17/7/06
Scripture Union advises Christians on HIV/AIDS

An interdenominational Christian body under the aegis of Scripture Union West Africa (S.    more...
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17/7/06
CDC to patronise Nigerian-made HIV-1/2 Test Kits
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Department of the United States Government, Abuja confirmed it’s readiness to purchase Bundi Rapid HIV-1/2 test kits.    more...
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17/7/06
75 thousand Nigerians on antiretroviral therapy
About 75,650 Nigerian are currently receiving antiretroviral therapy in about 75 treatment centers across the country.    more...
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13/7/06
6 Million Nigerians HIV Positive
The National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) said Nigeria has more than six million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).    more...
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12/7/06
Nigeria gets N5.4 billion grant to fight malaria, HIV
To strengthen the fight against Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Nigeria, Global Fund, a United Nations agency, has entered into a four-year agreement to provide a total of N5.    more...
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11/7/06
Lagos commences inspection of blood banks
The Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee has commenced inspection of all blood banks in the state for possible accreditation just as it threatened a showdown with operators of blood banks who failed to meet up with the minimum requirements of an ideal blood bank.    more...
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11/7/06
FG institutes DOTS in HIV treatment centers
In a move to check the growing prevalence of Tuberculosis (TB) in the country, Federal government has instituted the Directly Observed Treatment Short - Course (DOTS) strategy to all Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) centers across the nation.    more...
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11/7/06
Rising homosexuality dangerous to AIDS response- Osotimehin
Chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Prof.    more...
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7/7/06
LUTH and the HIV Baby It is expected that any system worth its name, especially a health institution, would instinctively spring into action on a matter that concerns life and death.    more...
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7/7/06
Work begins on $32m HIV/AIDS clinic in Bayelsa Shell Petroleum Develop-ment Company (SPDC), has flagged-off construction of the $32 million (N4.    more...
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6/7/06
Bayero University students worried over rate of HIV infection
Students of the Bayero University, Kano, have raised over a million naira by launching a book calling on girls to observe better dress codes in universities in the North.    more...
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4/7/06
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate drops in Plateau, Gombe, Kaduna
Three northern states earlier classified as having high prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection within the last 3years, recent studies reveal have started recording marked reduction in the level of the spread.    more...
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4/7/06
Inter-Ministerial c'ttee on ARV production established
President Olusegun Obasanjo has directed that concerted action be taken to provide cheap locally produced HIV/AIDS drugs in the country.    more...
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3/7/06
Obasanjo calls for legislations to protect PLWH
President Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda and the Senate President Chief Ken Nnamani  have called for legislations that would protect the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country as a way of curbing the spread.    more...
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29/6/06
Ojodu gets HIV testing centre For the people of Ojodu in Lagos, last Friday was a day to remember.    more...
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29/6/06
Baby Eniola:LUTH doctors protest suspension of colleagues
Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, have protested the suspension of their colleagues by the Minister of Health, Dr.    more...
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29/6/06
Freeing women from HIV/AIDS
Women are dissatisfied with governments, international organisations, global institutions and multi- and trans-national corporate bodies for their less helpful role in the fight against the global pandemic: HIV/AIDS.    more...
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27/6/06
Cross River state receives free donation of ARV Fidson Health Care Limited has donated anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) worth over N3millon to Cross-River state.    more...
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27/6/06
In Nigerite HIV is treated like malaria- Dumont
For Mr.    more...
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27/6/06
Bayelsa vows to eradicate HIV/AIDS
Bayelsa State Government has expressed its determination to fight the spread of the HIV/AIDS scourge.    more...
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22/6/06
Lambo rejects report on HIV-infected baby
Health Minister, Prof Eyitayo Lambo, has rejected the reports of two panels that investigated the case of a baby girl presumably transfused with HIV-infected blood at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).    more...
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21/6/06
Govt suspends four LUTH officials over baby infected with HIV The Federal Government on Tuesday set up an independent panel to unravel how baby Oyinkansola Eniola received blood infected with HIV.    more...
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20/6/06
HIV/AIDS prevalence highest among wealthy Africans -study
The richest Africans have higher HIV prevalence rates than the poorest, disputing commonly held beliefs that Aids is driven by poverty, according to an analysis released this week of recent data from eight African nations.    more...
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13/6/06
Nigeria to access $180m from Global Fund
Determined to support the community of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and to restate partnership with Nigeria, the Global Funds is to release the sum of $180m to Nigeria for the control and treatment of HIV/AIDS victims in the country.    more...
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8/6/06
ETF flags off N52.5m HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in schools
The Education Trust Fund (ETF), in conjunction with 'AIDS: Unite for Life' have committed N52.    more...
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6/6/06
NEPWHAN appeals for govt's support in AIDS response
The Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, South-east zone, has called on state governments within the zone to support efforts of donor agencies to implement a long term strategic plan to create greater awareness and totally eliminate HIV/AIDS from the zone.    more...
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6/6/06
AIDS and African fraternity At the end of the Special Summit on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria organised by the African Union in Abuja last month, African leaders and Heads of State came up with a common position paper calling for accelerated action towards mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria on the continent.    more...
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5/6/06
'88,000 Women Are HIV Positive'
A gender and health-based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Girls Power Initiative (GPI), has revealed that women constitute 51 per cent of the 2.    more...
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5/6/06
U.S. urges renewed global commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS
The focus of the U.    more...
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5/6/06
Media praised for HIV/AIDS advocacy in UNGASS report
A growing number of Nigerian journalists have evolved from mere reporters and broadcasters to being HIV/AIDS advocates, and their contribution is recognised in Nigeria's report on progress in meeting targets set by the 2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS).    more...
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16/5/06
Global Fund's cancelleld grant: "All hope not lost" With the cancellation of two round-one Global Fund grants in support of HIV/AIDS treatment in Nigeria, many have expressed apprehension on the fate of people living with the virus. But Omololu Falobi, Executive Director of Journalists Against AIDS(JAAIDS)Nigeria tells EFE EBELO that all hope is not lost as the cancellation is not total. Besides, he argues that the grants were not cancelled as a result of corruption by National AIDS Action Committee (NACA), managers of the grant.    more...
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16/5/06
Termination Of Funds By Global Fund Will Not Affect Nigeria’ Professor Babatunde Oshotimehin is Chairman, National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA). In this interview with Science Reporter ONCHE ODEH, he reacts to Global Fund’s recent termination of its $50 million grant for the treatment of HIV-AIDS patients and the fight against the prevalence of the disease in Nigeria. The grant was managed by NACA. Oshotimehin also speaks on achievements of NACA. Excerpts:    more...
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11/5/06
Nigeria and Global Fund
Following its failure to meet targets on efforts to eradicate the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Nigeria has been suspended by Global Funds for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).    more...
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11/5/06
Global Fund:Nigeria still qualified to apply for $180m
Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Mr.    more...
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10/5/06
Obasanjo decries little progress in AIDS control efforts
President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday painted a gloomy picture of the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa by its leaders, saying Africa indeed must evolve strategies that would work effectively for them as very little progress has so far been made.    more...
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4/5/06
HIV/AIDS, malaria claim 4million lives annually-Minister The Minister of State for Health, Mrs Halima Tayo Alao has said recent studies have shown that at least four million people die in Africa annually as a result of HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, all of which are disease burdens most prevalent in the continent.    more...
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4/5/06
Global Fund board launches round sixth grant
The Board of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is calling for a new round of grant proposals from countries striving to combat AIDS, TB and Malaria.    more...
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4/5/06
FG spends N5bn on HIV/AIDS - Oshotimehin
The Federal Government yesterday said it has expended N5 billion in the battle to contain HIV/AIDS.    more...
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29/4/06
FG budgets N600m for summit on HIV, malaria,TB
The Federal Government of Nigeria said it will spend about N600million for the hosting of 2006 Special Summit of the African Union on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria scheduled to hold in Abuja.    more...
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20/4/06
Group lauds HIV/AIDS campaign at 15th National Sports Festival
As visitors to the HIV/ AIDS campaign exhibition stand at the MKO Abiola Stadium, venue of the 15th National Sports Festival in Abeokuta thins out following news of some positive results turned out from tests conducted on some people, Director of the campaign group, Quality Life Programme (QLP), Mrs.    more...
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20/4/06
Seadogs move to curb spread of HIV in rural areas
Disturbed by the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS  in Cross River State, the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) a.    more...
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20/4/06
Gender programming identified as key to HIV prevention
Government must incorporate gender programming in the development agenda in order to halt the advancement ofHIV/AIDS in Nigeria, especially its increased rate of infection among women and girls.    more...
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13/4/06
For people living with HIV/AIDS, a fresh hope
In the past, the exorbitant cost of drugs and their non-availability have been the nightmare of people living with HIV/AIDS in the country despite efforts by government to make them available.    more...
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13/4/06
Studies disagree on safety of lemon juice against HIV
Potentially contradictory findings on whether lemon and lime juice could safely protect women from HIV infection if they apply it to their vaginas will be presented at an international conference later this month.    more...
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7/4/06
Abuja+5:African civil society organisations evaluate AIDS response on the continent
Civil society organizations working on HIV/AIDS would this week in Abuja attempt to evaluate the progress made, identify lessons learned and mistakes made by African countries in responding to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria since the African heads of state summit in 2000 in Abuja.    more...
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6/4/06
Islamic group worried about spread of HIV in Nigeria An Islamic NGO, Muslim Action Guide Against AIDS, Poverty, Illiteracy and Conflicts (MAGAAPIC) has noted that HIV/AIDS might continue to spread in the country unless the awareness campaign about the disease was intensified.    more...
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6/4/06
Cross River state beefs up AIDS response plan Disturbed by the prevalence of the HIV/AIDS in the state, the Cross River state government has evolved a more stringent approach to the campaign against the spread of the disease.    more...
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6/4/06
South-South leads in use of condom
Over three hundred million condoms have been used in two years by Nigerians, with the South-south geopolitical zone, leading with a consumption rate of 52.    more...
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3/4/06
FG gives LUTH 4 weeks to explain HIV status of baby Eniola
The Federal Government has issued a 4- week ultimatum to the management board of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) to submit a comprehensive report on Baby Eniola who was diagnosed to have HIV/AIDS after under going a blood transfusion at the teaching hospital.    more...
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3/4/06
Global Fund warns of AIDS funding crunch
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria risks reneging on promises to millions of HIV-positive people, a senior official said on Thursday.    more...
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27/3/06
Experts worry over Nigeria’s TB burden
Medical experts have raised alarm over increasing
burden of tuberculosis infection in the country
despite the fact  that TB is curable within  eight
months of treatment.    more...
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27/3/06
Global TB Report 2006: Nigeria still worst hit African
Nigeria tops the list of countries making the slowest
progress in controlling tuberculosis among countries
with the greatest number of cases in Africa.    more...
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27/3/06
Anti-gay bill could hinder AIDS interventions in Nigeria
Proposed legislation to criminalise same-sex relationships in Nigeria could hamper anti-AIDS efforts, rights groups said on Thursday.    more...
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14/3/06
Roundtable regrets slow response to HIV/AIDS by Nigerian companies Getting companies in Nigeria to develop, adopt and effectively implement HIV/AIDS workplace policies has been an uphill task for SMARTWork/AED, Nigeria.    more...
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14/3/06
Partnership: Global Scheme Against HIV/AIDS
Juliana Opara just lost her husband less than a year ago.    more...
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8/3/06
NACA boss warns on dangers of pre-marital sex
Chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Professor Babatunde Oshotimehin, has alerted youths aged between 15 and 35 on the dangers of pre-marital sex saying this group was vulnerable to having sexually transmitted infections which later turns to full blown HIV/AIDS.    more...
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6/3/06
Nigeria to host leaders` summit on HIV/AIDS in May
African leaders will in May attend an HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis conference in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the director of the AIDS programme management at WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO), Paul Samson Lusambo-Dikassa, said in Brazzaville on Friday.    more...
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6/3/06
Expert laments spread of HIV/AIDS
A medical expert and consultant for National Action Committee on HIV/AIDS (NACA), Dr Alvin Enyi, has expressed alarm at the spread of the disease in the rural communities of South Eastern Nigeria, and has urged that more effort should be made in the rural areas of the zone to assist those who are already down with the disease.    more...
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2/3/06
Benue govt denies favouring top officials on ARVs
The Benue State government, has formally denied that it has favoured only top government officials and those with close ties in the distribution of the anti-retroviral drugs (AVRs) for HIV/AIDS disease.    more...
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1/3/06
Journalists, PLWH explore opportunities for collaboration
"How did you get infected with the virus? Was it your fault or your partnerýs fault? Have you been having sex? How is life without sex? Are you still planning to marry and have children?"