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NACA Takes Public Health Campaign To Rural Communities

The National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) has extended its public health awareness campaign to rural communities in Benue State. The agency has … Continue reading NACA Takes Public Health Campaign To Rural Communities


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nacaThe National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) has extended its public health awareness campaign to rural communities in Benue State.

The agency has been offering free medical services and HIV/Aids testing.

An Assistant Director of Strategic Knowledge Management on HIV/AIDs in NACA, Mr Lawrence Kwaghar, said that the free medical services is aimed at reducing the infection rate and to improve on Nigeria’s public health concerns.

Some beneficiary of the four-day free medical services in Tarka Local Government commended the NACA for the initiative.

They said that it has afforded them the opportunity to get tested, know their health status and better their standards of living.

In Imo state, several people trooped into the Premier Primary School at Amaifeke in Orlu Local Government for the NACA/Sure National HIV testing and counselling.

The Programme Director, Mrs Agatha Thomas, said that the essence of the programme is to create public awareness to members of the public to avail them the opportunity to have access to some basic health services which is being funded by the federal government.

Also speaking, the Programme Coordinator for Imo State, Nwokedi Onyekachi, said that the agency is working round the clock with massive mobilization and sensitization exercise to ensure that by 2030 over 95% of Nigerians would have done the HIV test so as to reduce the problem of stigmatization and victimization.