In 2016, roughly 24,000 children died of AIDS-related causes in Nigeria; 12-year-old Yusuf Adamu is also very sick. He, too, lost his mother to AIDS. In Nigeria, roughly 37,000 children were newly ...

HIV/AIDS: In Nigeria, over 3,000 babies tested positive in the last four years — Report The report by the National AIDS and STIs Control Programme shows that out of 73,422 samples tested between ...

PEPFAR Nigeria’s Country Coordinator, Funmi Adesanya, has said that the problem with ending HIV in Nigeria is not HIV itself but stopping the stigmatisation and discrimination of persons living ...

Worse still, the National AIDS/STIs Control Programme says only 57,280 out of the estimated 150,000 children living with HIV in Nigeria were on treatment as of June 2021, ...

As Nigeria continues to struggle with low coverage in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, an estimated 22,000 children are born with the virus each year.

As Nigeria celebrates the 2025 Children’s Day, ... Ilori said, despite significant progress, thousands of children in Nigeria are still born with HIV each year – a preventable tragedy.

In 2020, 140,000 adolescents and 97,000 children in Nigeria lived with HIV. Per 1,000 uninfected populations, the HIV incidence rate among children aged 14 years was 0.65.

The CCN President noted that Nigeria, according to statistics, has a high number of children who are HIV victims – 160,000, with only 45,000 undergoing treatment, saying that it was unacceptable.

Health authorities say 70,000 children are born HIV-positive in Nigeria every year, and one-fourth of them don't live past their first birthday. While some officials say they want to make Nigeria ...

For IDIs, caregivers of children and young adolescents living with HIV including parents and guardians of children in orphanages were interviewed. Adolescents aged 18-19 years were interviewed. Key ...

According to statistics, Nigeria has a high number of children who are HIV victims – 160,000, with only 45,000 undergoing treatment. This is unacceptable, and we must do more to address this ...

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare announced significant progress in controlling HIV through the National AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and STIs Control Programme (NASCP).