Nigeria ranks top in the number of HIV/AIDS infected babies -FG

The federal government has confirmed a local and international indices that rank Nigeria first on the list of countries with high record of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS globally.
According to the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, Nigeria has 3.1 million people living with the virus with 1.1 million under proper and timely treatment from the government.
Adewole said this in Abuja on Tuesday at the launch of the roadmap on the implementation of the National Treatment and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT).
According to him, the country has about 30 percent of the children born with HIV/AIDS globally.
“There is no reason why Nigeria should be the highest producer of babies infected with HIV because, we have put in great efforts in the past”, he said.
Adewole said the roadmap has been designed to give proper guidance and direction on how best to offer treatment to HIV patients in Nigeria and also protect unborn children from contacting the virus through infected mothers.

The minister also said that he was impressed with the stakeholder’s commitment of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to the cause of proper and timely care for patients with the virus.