By Bisola Adeyemo
Dr Miriam Ezekwe, the Southeast zonal coordinator for the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) appealed to the federal government to not neglect curbing HIV/AIDs in this COVID-19 era.
The health expert said that the bulk of the resources mapped out for the treatment of HIV/AIDs patients in the country had been channelled towards combating the spread of COVID.
She disclosed this in Owerri, Imo State capital while interacting with newsmen on Thursday.
She said, “If not for the quick response of the federal government during the outbreak of AIDs, many more Nigerians would have died of it. Unfortunately, the attention of the FG has been shifted to COVID-19, which is believed to be the most killer disease.
“Let me tell you, HIV/AIDS is killing more people in Nigeria than COVID-19 but many people do not know this, daily post reports
“Coronavirus is an airborne disease, but HIV/AIDs is a Sexually Transmitted Disease and you know what that means.
“In Southeast, the number of HIV/AIDs patients are increasing by the day. Anambra State is the worst hit with a ratio of 2.4percent, Abia is 2.1, Enugu State is third with a ratio of 2.0 while Ebonyi State is 1.0.”