The NACA Director-General, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said this while delivering a lecture at the Ministry of Defence Health Implementation Programme in Abuja, the country’s capital. The lecture titled: “HIV infection in Nigeria: Current trends, challenges and the way forward,” was initiated under a programme partly organised with the United States Department of Defence Walter Reed Programme Nigeria. According to Aliyu, statistics also showed that 220,000 new cases of HIV infections were recorded nationwide in 2017. He noted that according to the Integrated Biological and Behavioural Surveillance Survey, apart from the soldiers and policemen, other groups with high risks in the country were female sex workers, homosexuals, transport workers and drug addicts. “The six target groups mostly at risk of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria are female sex workers, men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, transport workers, men of the armed forces and the police.

Source: Punch January 20, 2018 00:11 UTC