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.

Abdulfatah Ahmed     Kwara University Of Education     Mustapha AbdulGaniyu     Towoju     Kwara South     Rabiu Kwankwaso     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Maigida Soludero Transit     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Ahmad Uthman     Muhammed Danjuma     Muslim Cementary     Olatunji Moronfoye     Mohammed Yisa     Okedare     Kwara Polytechnic     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Convocation Ceremonies     Folaranmi Aro     Vasolar Consortium     Toyosi Thomas     Shehu Jimoh     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Sardauna     Tsaragi-Share     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Pakata     Kishira     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Amos Justus Sayo     Muhammed Abdullahi     Olaoye B. Felix     TIIDELab     Unicontinental Construction Company     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Danhawa     Halimat Yusuf     Balogun-Ojomu     Idowu Laro     Sheikh Ariyibi     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Abraham Ojo     Ojo Isekuse     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Kayode Zubair     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Makama Of Ilorin     Oba Abdulraheem     Umar Adelodun     Ilorin Like-Minds     Oyun     Umar Danladi Shero     Kale Ayo     Ahman Pategi University     Kisira     Shaaba Lafiagi     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Adesoye     Mufutau Olatinwo     Naira Redesign     Lawal Olohungbebe     Saheed Alakoso     Tunji Oyawoye     Government High School Adeta     Ahmed Bayero     N-Power     Oloriegbe     Vasolar Consultoria     Ayo Salami     Igosun     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Durosinlohun Atiku     Taofeek Ibraheem    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Plat Technologies Limited     Ejidongari     Fatai Olodo     Boko Haram     Kwara State Football Association     Shehu Adaramaja     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Seni Saraki     Muhammed Akanbi     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     COVID     Quran     Mohammed Saidu     Olatunde Olukoya     AGILE Programme     Kwara Apc     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Arinola Lawal     Saliu Oluwole     Magaji Erubu     Bareke     Yomi Adeboye     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     IYA ALFA NLA     Sunset Workers     Sadiq Umar     Kemi Adeosun     Saad Belgore     Oya State     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Just Event Online     LABTOP     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Gurei     NULGE     Laduba     Peter Obi     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Ita-Nmo Market     Kwara Consultative Forum     Tsado Manman     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Adesoye     Okoolowo     Lateef Alagbonsi     Bureau Of Lands     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     Ogidi-Oloje     Akorede     Okin Group     Alabe     Yusuf A. Usman     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Ramadhan     Isaac Gbenle     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Halimat Yusuf     Yahaya Dumoye     JUSUN     Centre For Digital Economy     Yakubu Dogara     Agboola Babatunde     Usman Rifun     Oloje     Ilorin East     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Idofin     Budo-Egba     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Okanlawon Musa