HIV: 6,000 Children Risk Contracting Disease In Kaduna State In 2019 — UNICEF - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 18, 2019
The UnitedNations International Children’s Emergency Fund, UNICEF says that 6,000newborns in Kaduna State are at risk of contracting HIV in 2019 if eliminationof Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV interventions is not implemented.
Chief ofField Office, UNICEF Kaduna, Zakari Adam, made the assertion at a one-daymeeting in Kaduna on Monday.
Themeeting was organised for the wives of local government chairmen in the stateto give feedback on level of implementation of 2018 demand creation activitieson eMTCT of HIV.
Adam saidthat Kaduna State was one of the four states in the country being supported byUNICEF to pilot eMTCT by 2020 and end adolescent AIDs epidemic by 2030.
He said thatthough the state had recorded an increase in eMTCT coverage from 16 per cent in2012 to 66 per cent in 2017, it was still challenged by low Antenatal Care attendanceand hospital delivery.
He also said the state was equally battling with low awareness about the benefits of eMTCT and inadequate human resources for quality health services.