The Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Human Virology if Nigeria, IHVN,Patrick Dakum, has revealed that about 3.2 million people are living with Human Immuno Virus, HIV, in Nigeria.
He also revealed that the country has has more children living within virus than anywhere in the world.
Dakum, who stated this during a press conference organized in collaboration with Access Bank in Lagos recently, noted that since the past three decades, the virus has claimed many lives, adding that IHVN has been established to make provision for quality laboratory support, prevention, care and treatment for people living with HIV and other infected diseases as about 220,000 acquire HIV virus annually.
He explained that IHVN in its own capacity has counseled and tested over 8.7 million people who now know their HIV status and make informed choices about their lives; enabled 69,540 women living with HIV to give birth to HIV free children, and helped over 256,000 adults and 15,771 children with drugs for HIV to live positively with the disease.
He said: “it is not about what IHVN have done but about what we can all do to build a future in which our children can respond to diseases that they may face. We see a future in which scientists are nurtured to research into diseases and this is a step towards building it. The International Research Center of Excellent that the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, IHVN, plans to build will be a center of excellence in prevention, treatment, care and research into infectious and non-infectious diseases”.
When doctors are hungry, they come up with stories. How did he get his figures of 3.2million Nigerians living with HIV?! How many hospitals in Nigeria has he visited to make his censor?! Lies just to skyrocket figures in other to extort money from the government like the Ebola case in Nigeria.
When has Nigerian doctors started caring about the people rather than their pot bellies and themselves.