Over 50,000 people are currently living with HIV/AIDS in Kogi State, the Acting Executive Secretary, Kogi State Agency for the Control of Aids, Ibrahim Anate has said.
Anate while speaking with journalists during the road Walk in commemoration of the 2024 World AIDS Day in Lokoja said efforts are being made to ensure that people living with HIV have access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs.
At the walk organised by the Centre for Integrated Health Programmes, in collaboration with the Kogi State Agency for the Control of Aids., Anate said out of those living with the disease in the state, 36,066 are presently on treatment in Kogi State.
He said, “We are seriously fighting the scourge and we are giving the awareness to all the community and the hard-to-reach areas of the awareness of HIV in Kogi State.”
