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UN fixes 2030 to end AIDS scourge

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Ahead of the 2016 World AIDS Day, outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the organisation is working toward ending the AIDS scourge by 2030.

“The United Nations is working worldwide to end AIDS by 2030,” Ban said on Monday in New York in his message for World AIDS Day, observed on Dec. 1.

Ban said 35 years since the emergence of AIDS, the international community could look back with some pride.

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Nigeria accounts for over 25 % of new HIV child infections

Friday, November 25, 2016

Nigeria accounts for more than a quarter of all new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infections among children globally and only half of pregnant women living with the virus are tested for the disease.

A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) titled “Get on the fast track: The life-cycle approach to HIV” published yesterday noted that testing remains a major issue.

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