Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, Health Minister
In its attempt to curtail the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country, the federal government, under the President’s Comprehensive Response Plan (PCRP), plans to avail 80 million Nigerians, aged 15 and above with their HIV status.
President Goodluck Jonathan made this known Tuesday at the AIDS Watch Africa Champions breakfast meeting held at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.
After the breakfast meeting, the president also had a closed door meeting with his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, after which they signed a bilateral agreement covering areas of health, terrorism and foreign relations.
According to the president, other aims of the PCRP are the enrolment of an additional 600,000 eligible adults and children into Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) and the provision of ART for 244,000 HIV-positive pregnant women.
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