SHOCKING!!! Lagos marks the highest state with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria See the number of people living with it.

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SHOCKING!!! Lagos marks the highest state with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria See the number of people living with it.

The number of adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Lagos state has been revealed as the world marks World AIDS Day.

The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA, has revealed that about 72,000 adolescents are living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, in the state.

Speaking during a stakeholders’ Forum on Adolescents Living with HIV in Lagos to mark this year’s World AIDS Day with the theme: “Hands Up for HIV Prevention”, the Chief Executive Officer of LSACA, Dr Oluseyi Temowo on Wednesday urged stakeholders to come together and fight the epidemic with a view to saving the country’s future leaders.

Statistics from LSACA showing the the top 10 states with highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in Nigeria, revealed that Rivers state is the highest with 15.2 percent while Ondo state is the lowest among the 10 is Ondo with 4.3 percent.

‘’HIV occurs in all ages, hence the need to urgently tackle the transmission in adolescent.

“Achieving AIDS free generation requires collective efforts, this is why we are calling on government at all levels, individuals and organisations to join us in this quest to make Lagos State HIV Free.’’ Temowo said.

He revealed the State government’s commitment in ensuring that 90 percent of those affected were on treatment and had low viral load by 2030.

Temowo said that the 616,318 that attended the HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) awareness programme from January to June, 2016, no fewer than 9,579 people tested positive to HIV.