About 45,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria died in 2019, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has revealed.
Fiona Braka, a representative of the UN office, made this known at a question and answer session in front of the 2020 World AIDS Day coordinated by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA).
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She said the demise rate is “intolerable”.
“This is unsatisfactory as it’s occurring in a period where government, givers, and accomplices have effectively made life-sparing drug and products accessible,” she said.
World AIDS Day is praised on December 1 consistently to respect the individuals who have tumbled to the infection just as individuals living with HIV.
It is additionally celebrated to bring issues to light of the infection and the requirement for individuals to know their status.
The subject during the current year’s World AIDS Day is ‘Worldwide solidarity, Shared duty’.
