Fourteen out of the 2,109 Internally Displaced Persons,
IDPs, screened for HIV in Yobe State, have tested positive to the virus.
Those who tested positive, 10 from Nguru and four from
Gashua have all been referred to Anti Retroviral Therapy, ART, at the Federal
Medical Center, in Nguru for care and treatments.
The screening was carried out by the National Agency for the
Control of AIDS & NACA. Its Project Coordinator, Dr Aminu Fikin, disclosed the
exercise was designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate the risk of
transmission of HIV in the state, he says the exercise also covered Borno and Adamawa
States.
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