Good news as Edo Govt Set to Partner Nigerian Government to Solve HIV/AIDS Palaver

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Image result for godwin obasekiGood news as Edo Govt Set to Partner Nigerian Government to Solve HIV/AIDS Palaver



The Edo State Government will partner the Nigerian Government to effectively manage Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS).
The state Governor, Godwin Obaseki stated this recently when he played host to the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, who led a delegation of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and implementing partners on an advocacy visit to the Government House in Benin City.

The governor said his government was committed to strengthening health systems to allow for effective management of diseases which include HIV/AIDs, adding that a committee with representatives of NACA would be set up to brainstorm on an action plan on the models and strategies for effective management of the disease in the state.

“It is important that we contain HIV, but there are some key things we need to do. We also need laboratories and the right management models to make it work,” Obaseki added.

Minister of Health, who was represented by Dr. Evelyn Ngige, Director for Public Health in the Federal Ministry of Health, had said there was need for the state government to increase funding for HIV/AIDS activities.

Adewole explained that there was still a wide gap between those who require HIV care and treatment and those who can access it in Edo State.

He disclosed that an estimated 173,660 persons were living with the virus in the state while 25, 730 persons living with the virus were on Anti-retroviral treatment.
The minister said the state in 2016 spent N5,000,000 on the state’s Sustainability Road Map (SRM) for the disease.

He said the estimated project cost to implement the SRM in the state was about N271, 432, 118.
“We want the state to earmark at least 0.5 to one per cent of its monthly federal allocation for the funding of HIV/AIDs Sustainability Road Map and the provision of HIV/AIDs commodities in the state,” the minister added.
 

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