Mamora said the Nigeria HIV control programme had grown significantly in the last five years, with the past two years becoming perhaps the most remarkable because of resilience shown by the programme despite the challenges of the COVID19 pandemic. I happy to note that we are firmly on the march to achieving the target of The minister said clinical mentorship would be critical in ensuring that the target was achieved, adding that it entails building capacity and supporting HIV and care service providers in an integrated manner The Director General of NACA, Dr.
Gambo Aliyu described the launch of the clinical mentorship programme as the outcome of months of collaborative hard work between the United States government of NASCP putting experiences gained from Zambia and Namibia where such programmes have been tested. He said the situation in Nigeria had improved from having , persons living with HIV on treatment to about 1. Aliyu, however, said it had become necessary at this point to do a kind of preventive and also professional mentoring so as to ensure standard treatment.
She said since the US began its partnership with Nigeria, achieving an end to the spread of virus has been the main goal. The Executive Director of the organisation, Dr Winnie Byanyima said this would be achieved by supporting community led monitoring to empower community led organisations and networks to participate in life changing activities.
She said that Community-Led Monitoring was a critical element in improving access to quality service for the benefit of the HIV community. Accountability mechanisms The UNAIDS Executive also said that monitoring and accountability mechanisms are needed to improve services and quality of delivery at the community level. She said that CLM was a critical element in Community based result of HIV while urging those rendering the services to decide their priority for monitoring to ensure that everyone accesses the necessary service needed.
He said that Communities matter in whatever the government was doing and they must therefore be considered. It also indicates that distance of treatment centers and out of pocket expenses were major barriers to HIV service accessibility. Effects of HIV treatment Other barriers include side effects of HIV treatment, drug breaks, lack of confidentiality at site level, user fees for processing payments, waiting for time to be attended to, stigmatisation and discrimination.
US blacklists Islamist groups in Congo and Mozambique. Well designed information, Education and communication programs are needed to aid stigma reduction programs. To change health workers attitudes to PLWHAs as well as knowledge about the disease to enhance this change, thus reducing stigma and discrimination. Willingness to treat HIV patients e. The three dimensions of stigma measurement used were: Status disclosure dimension :, i. At the community level social norm , it is more strongly and directly associated with readiness among men than women.
Open in a separate window. Discussion This mini review has a few relevant observations. References 1. Nigeria; Country profile.
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