Despite the disruption of health services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 350,000 more persons living with HIV were identified and put on treatment in the past 18 months, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has said.
The Director General of NACA, Dr Aliyu Gambo, said this in Abuja on Friday during a national dialogue on “Prevention of Mother to child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), organised by the National AIDS/STIs Control Programme of the Federal Ministry of Health.
“From a few numbers of one-stop shops have amounted to over 60 one-stop shops all over the country and all these accounted for the 350,000 we were able to identify, instead of the traditional 50,000 to 60,000,” he said.
