Tag: HIV
Police arrest man for allegedly infecting more than 200 with HIV
An HIV-positive man who might have consciously passed on the deadly virus to more than 200 sexual partners has been arrested in Italy.
A spokesman...
People living with HIV/AIDS beg JOHESU to end strike
The Network of People Living with HIV andAIDS (NEPWHAN) on Friday appealed to the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) to end its nationwide strike...
Court sentences HIV-positive man to 6 years in prison for raping...
A court in the Northern German City of Hamburg on Tuesday sentenced an HIV-positive man to six years in prison for raping an 82-year-old woman.
The...
Quack doctor infects 33 with HIV
Police on Tuesday filed a complaint against a quack doctor who infected 33 people in northern India with HIV after using contaminated syringes and...
NGOs slam Global Fund partnership with Heineken
Civil society groups Thursday called on The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to scrap a new partnership with Dutch brewing giant...
Wife denies husband sex for fear of contracting HIV
A housewife, Bayonle Bamidele, on Tuesday told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court in Agodi, Ibadan, that she denied her husband, Adeyemi Bamidele, sex for fear...
Nigeria had second largest HIV epidemic in 2016 — Report
Nigeria had the second largest HIV epidemic in 2016, with over 196,000 adolescents representing 10 per cent of the global burden said to be...
200,000 living with HIV in Oyo – NACA DG
Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Sani Aliyu, says an estimated 200,000 people are living with HIV in Oyo State.
He...
50 % people in Gombe don’t know HIV/AIDS status – Official
Programme Manager, Gombe State Agency for the Control of HIV and AIDS (GOMSACA), Dr Suraj Abdulkarim, has said 50 percent of people in the...
US awards micro-grants to support children orphaned by HIV/AIDS
The US Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria on Friday announced a N2.9 million micro-grant to 50 women caregivers to support the economic wellbeing of their...