Fight AIDS Africa tasks stakeholders on palliatives, drugs to suppress life-threatening ailments
The organisation Fight AIDS Africa has called on stakeholders to prioritise the provision of palliatives and alternative drug therapy needed to suppress HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and hepatitis.
This appeal follows the recent suspension of the USAID programme by US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The organisation urged the Federal Government, the Ondo State Government, and particularly the Ondo State Agency for the Control of AIDS to be proactive in saving the lives of people living with the disease.
The Executive Director of Fight AIDS Africa Youth Organisation, Mr Junaid Adeyemi, made this call in a statement he personally signed and made available to the media in Akure, the Ondo State capital.
He emphasised the need to sustain the 0.1% prevalence rate recorded by both the Federal and Ondo State agencies for AIDS control.
According to him, urgent intervention is required to provide alternative treatment and implement policies to protect people living with AIDS.
Adeyemi highlighted the need to address the gap created by the suspension in order to curb the spread of HIV in Nigerian society.
