HIV/AIDS: KWASACA screens Ilorin market women

Date: 2019-12-09

Kwara State AIDS Control Agency (KWASACA) has taken sensitization, counselling and testing services to Baboko New Market, popularly called Oja Tuntun in the Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State.

Speaking with journalists during the exercise at the weekend, the agency's project manager, Dr Seleem Alabi, said the aim was to ensure wider reach for the intervention.

Represented by the head of outreach, Pharmacist Binta Adeyemo, the project manager reaffirmed need and strategic importance of carrying HIV/AIDS intervention to the doorstep of Ilorin market women and the market-goers so that testing services could be accessed and HIV sensitization and awareness could also be done for a multitude of people in the market place.

The project manager also said that present administration in the state was ready to ensure HIV/AIDS is fought to finish in the state through coordinating activities of the agency.

He appealed to all the Baboko New Market women and people of its environs to come out for HIV testing services which he said was the only sure-bet to ascertain one's HIV status.

He also said that there is need to identify all those carrying the virus in the environment so as to link them appropriately to care, adding that it would ensure they do not further transmit the virus to others; that being first UNAIDS target that the state is working towards achieving.

He urged those who might be newly tested as HIV positive not to panic, saying that HIV infection is treatable and not a death sentence.

Dr Alabi reassured that the state is blessed with competent health care workers to take care of treatment, saying that the charges are free.

"Although the treatment is lifelong, infected individuals could live a healthy life once the antiretroviral drugs are taken as prescribed", he said.

In his concluding remarks, he appealed to the generality of people to support the present government of Kwara in its drive to fight the menace of the HIV epidemic, warned people to desist from stigmatizing those living with the virus and urged people to rather support HIV positive to access adequate care that could prevent them from further spreading the virus.

In her response, the market women leader, Alhaja Adebara Ojatuntun, on behalf of all the women in the market, appreciated the Kwara state government through the efforts of the agency and pleaded with the agency to make such intervention a periodic exercise so that those who were unable to partake now could have the same opportunity next time.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Titus Ashaolu     Kolade Solagberu     Jebba     Samuel Adaramola     KWTV     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Ishaq Salman     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Usman Alkali Baba     Maigida Soludero Transit     Oba Abdulrahim     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Monthly Sanitation     Adaramaja     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Mohammed Ibrahim     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     A.O. Belgore     Olatunde Olukoya     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Baakini     Lithium     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Issa Oloruntogun     Dankaka     Toyin Abdullahi     Mubarak Oladosu     National Association Of Nigerian Students     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Babaita     Dorcas Afeniforo     Ilorin Durbar     Ghali Muhammed     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     TESCOM 2025     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Osuwa     Gbenga Adebayo     Gabriel Fashanu     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Kishira     Aminu Ado Bayero     Kisira     Sa\'adu Salahu     ASUU     The Herald     Umar Ayinla Saro     Alikinla     Edret Sabi Abel     Mohammed Lawal     Doyin Group     Olabode George Towoju     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Ijagbo     Femi Ogunsola     Nigeria Computer Society     Maryam Nurudeen     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Yusuf A. Usman     Olatunji Moronfoye     Osinbajo     MalHub     Yemi Osinbajo     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Funmi Salau     Bahago     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Asa     Saeedat Aliyu     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yahaya Abdulkareem     Gurei     Na\'Allah     CACOVID     Popo-Igbonna     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Mustapha Akanbi     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Dan-Kazeem     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Oluranti Idowu     Press Release     Olokoba Sulyman     Benin Republic     Tunji Olawuyi     Innocent Okoye     Ilorin Curfew     Dankaka     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Hijaab     Abdullahi Biffo     Oba Abu     Zainab Abass     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Kulende     Undergraduate Bursary     George Innih     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     George Funsho Adebayo     Kale Ayo     Issa Baba     Mary Arinde     Kayode Laro     UNIFEMGA     Garment Factory     Abubakar Atiku     Iqra Books     Ghali Alaaya     Toyin Abdullahi     Tunde Yusuf     Adekunle David Dunmade     Titus Ashaolu     Yekini Adio     Samari     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Ahman Patigi     Taofeek Ibraheem     Olabode George Towoju     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Alaro     Muslim Cementary     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Local Government     Afonja     Kawu     Segun Ogunsola     Makama Of Ilorin     Crystal Corner Shops     Ahman Pategi     Farouk Salim     Musa Abdullahi     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     Taofik Abdulkareem     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Obayomi Azeez     Azeez Bello     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     JSSCE     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Dairo Kunle Paul     Kwarareports     Jumoke F. Ajao     Kayode Issa     Islamiya Abdulraheem