3m Test For HIV In FCT In 2016 – FACA
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT’s) Agency For Control of HIV/AIDS (FACA) has disclosed that about three million residents underwent HIV/AIDS tests in 2016, with only three per cent positive cases.
Project Manager of the agency, Dr Uche Okoro, told journalists on Monday in Abuja that Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) still has the highest figure of persons living with HIV followed by Bwari.
Of those tested positive, the manager said that 120,000 were treated across health centres in the FCT as at December 2016.
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Okoro added that the positive persons are subjected to treatment as a method of combatting the disease has reduced the prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the territory.
The FACA boss stated that the test-and-treat method has also served as preventive measure which is better and cheaper.
“There are cases we have here where one of the couple was infected with the virus and the other one was not. The infected one was taking the treatment and also still having sexual intercourse with his partner and did not infect her.
“And if such couple had a baby; the child was also not infected because within six months of treatment, the viral load has dropped therefore such affected person cannot transmit it to others,” he said.
