About 190,000 persons in Niger state are infected with the HIV/AIDS disease, the Director General, Agency for HIV/AIDS and other Communicable Diseases in the state, Alhaji Adamu Umaru, has disclosed. He expressed concern that only 2,000 out of this number were on anti-retroviral drugs.
The director general told our correspondent in Minna, on Monday, that the state had about 5.4 percent prevalence of HIV/AIDS cases.
He lamented the ranking of the state as the 11th highest in HIV/AIDS prevalence in the country, and stated the resolve of the government to create the desired awareness in combating the scourge.
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