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Role Of Nta Enugu In The Campaign Against Hivaids In Rural Areas
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Again in response to the evidence and the debate on the existence of
HIV/AIDS in Nigeria the then minister of Health Professor Olukoye
Ransom, Ikuti in 1987, instituted the National Expert Advisory Committee
on AIDS (NEACA) and was charged with the responsibility of whether or
not AIDS exist in Nigeria, they were also mandated 3
to advise the
government as well draw up programmes strategies and activities to
prevent control of HIV/AIDS infection in the rural areas.
The report
from the committee stated that “HIV/AIDS existed in Nigeria and warned
that unless immediate steps were taken to prevent the spread of the
diseases, caused mainly by sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is
largely responsibility for the transmission of HIV/AIDS from men to
women and from women to men. People include rampant exchange of sexual
parent for example sexual premiscurity are more vulnerable to have
contributed immensely to the HIV/AIDS epidemics which is exculpating by
lapps and bounds among teenagers world wide, receptive intercourse is
more effective than other form of sexual activity transmitting HIV in
homosexual men. It is because AIDS virus can be contacted in the anus of
a carrier and through this act of sexual prevention.
Moreover,
during blood transfusion, if the blood of a patient gets in hospital is
not well screened for HIV/AIDS infection blood will surely contact
HIV/AIDS, so it should be well screened, contaminated needles, when one
needle has been used on a patient that has HIV/AIDS and the same needle
is used on another patient who is free from the virus the person will
later contract the virus through the use of contaminated needle.
According
to Ernest Alhabu (1985-5 HIV/AIDS can be transmitted to HIV/AIDS free
person who share the same tooth brush or razor or shaving stick with an
AIDS infected person because blood from AIDS patient can easily get into
the body of AIDS free person when such is being shared. 4
The rural
are would be faced with tremendous health problem “this necessitate the
establishment of AIDS co-ordinating units and twenty one testing
facilities in the various states of the federation. Training was
conducted for personnel to men these centres, there were also public
enlightenment activities and production of educational materials like
posters, hand bills, pamphlets and book on HIV/AIDS.
In February
1989, a two weeks workshop was organized by the federal ministry of
Health and other human services organization including states ministries
of Health with the technical assistance from the Global Programme on
AIDS (GPA) World Bank and other international agencies to address the
issue of AIDS in Nigeria. In March 1990, a resources mobilization
meeting was convened with participation by the Health Federal Ministry
of Health, by the world Health Organization, Global Programme on AIDS
and other international denor agencies.
Also in March the National
Aids co-ordinating units had the first “All Nigerian conference on AIDS
during which the former vice president, Admiral August Aikomu (Ltd)
launched the maiden edition of the Handbook on HIV infection and AIDS or
Health workers. All these efforts were aimed at affecting possible
solution towards ensuring the AIDS measure in Nigeria and to ensure
Healthier environment for the populace.
Assertions have been made
that the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a mere fallacy
and government programme of securing people from enjoying sexual
relationship-some ridiculous names, have been given the acronym AIDS,
such as America, idea of dissuading sex, animal infected diseases
syndrome and so on. It has 5
been discovered that the greater number
of people infected by AIDS fall within the range of 20-40 yeas by age
which is the prime age of life.
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