90:90:90 HIV/AIDS Target: Adhere to Your Treatment, Kpamor Charges Patients

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90:90:90 HIV/AIDS Target: Adhere to Your Treatment, Kpamor Charges Patients

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Jul 20, 2017 9:54 AM

Kasim Sumaina in Abuja

Country Director, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), Dr. Zipporah Kpamor has harped on the need for HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria to adhered religiously to their treatment if the country is to eliminate the scourge.

Kpamor while addressing pressmen at the sidelines of a recent programme of the North-west Zonal dissemination of the 2016 National Guidelines for HIV Prevention Treatment and Care in Kaduna State, hinted that, for the country to eliminate the scourge, persons on treatment should adhere to it.

According to her, “Every few years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) brings out guidelines that would help us to better manage HIV patients in the country or globally. And so, Nigeria looked at these guidelines and decided to adopt them to suite our situation in Nigeria.”

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