As part of efforts to tackle HIV/AIDS, experts in the Nigerian healthcare sector have called for improved education on the disease to enable ...

The results of the first national Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) survey would be announced today in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari.

An Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) positive man in the United Kingdom (UK) is the second person ever to be declared in remission from the virus, a new study reveals. The unidentified ‘London patient’ has been free of the virus for 18 months without viral-suppressing treatment after a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer. The…

For just the second time ever an HIV patient is in sustained remission from the virus in what was hailed by experts Tuesday as proof that the AIDS-causing condition could one day be curable. Ten years almost to the day since the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person being rid of the deadly disease,…

Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic by 2030. Speaking on prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases in Nigeria, Ofobrukweta said if the 2019 budget can provide free drugs to the 50,000 people living with the virus yearly, the country would eliminate the virus come 2030. “What can help to actualise the vision of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2030,…

Prof. Innocent Ujah is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) and the immediate past Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos. Ujah is also the National Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) committee on Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). He, in this…

The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has pledged her commitment to ensure that campaign to end mother-to-child HIV transmission in the country by 2030 bear fruit.  She advocated the removal of user fee for anti-natal and childcare services and increase funding for the health sector. The First Lady made this pledge at the launch…

Scientists are divided over the extraordinary claim by Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, to have helped produce the first babies — twin girls — born with edited genomes that protects them against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

FlourMills of Nigeria Plc (FMN), in collaboration with Society for Family Health (SFH), have stressed the need for Nigerians to fight against HIV/AIDS. They urged Nigerians to know their status, because people need responsible living to combat the disease. The partnership was unveiled in Lagos at the weekend, as employees of both organisations embarked on…

As the world yesterday marked the 2018 World AIDS Day, the Federal Government has been urged to put an immediate end to the payment of user fee charged people living with HIV by treatment facilities across the country.

This year, World AIDS day will be celebrating its 30th anniversary and this year's theme is “Know your status”. It is very essential as an individual to go for HIV/AIDS test twice in a year to know your status. Your status can either test positive or negative. HIV/AIDS positive indicates you are infected with the virus…

The United States Agency for International Development, (USAID) has concluded a five-year activity that provided support for 500,000 children orphaned or made vulnerable by the AIDS epidemic, and 125,000 of their caregivers. At a ceremony yesterday in Abuja, USAID disclosed that since 2013, the $45.3 million Sustainable Mechanisms for Improving Livelihoods (SMILE) activity, funded by…