BLAMING OPPOSITION FOR HUNGER IS ‘DELUSION’, ATIKU TELLS TINUBU. (PHOTO).

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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

OVER 1.7 MILLION PERSONS IN THE SOUTH EAST NOW SEEK HIV/AIDS TREATMENT AS AT THE END OF 2021. (PHOTOS).

Over 1.7 Million Persons In The South East Now Seek HIV/AIDS Treatment As At The End Of 2021.



Over one million, seven hundred thousand persons now seek HIV/AIDS treatment. This is as at end of December, 2021. This is comparable to about six hundred and seventy thousand persons in 2015, a thirty-seven point three -seven percent increase in six years.

This was made known by the South East Zonal Coordinator National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Miriam Ezekwe at a stakeholders coordination meeting held on the 23rd February 2022 at King David Hotel, Awka.

Dr Miriam noted that the epidemic control was achieved as a result of policies, resources and actions put together to enable person infected to seek medical attention rather than suffering in silence. 

She however said that the non health sector interventions such as HIV/AIDS peer education, Condom and lubricants, Palliative Care, Syringe and needle distribution and others are equally key in achieving zero HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS related deaths.

In a goodwill message the Anambra State United Nations AIDs Resident Program officer, Dr Adaoha Anosike thanked all the partners who came to participate and deliberate on the issues bothering on HIV and AIDs  in Anambra State. 

Dr Adaoha while pointing Anambra State as having the highest prevalence in south east which is not a good ordeal said that the meeting is to address preventive measures and deliberate on how to make sure senstization about the disease reaches every member of the State.
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