Access Corporation has in partnership with the Nigerian Business Coalition Against AIDS (NiBUCAA) conducted three weeks of free Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services, Including testing and counseling for 10,000 Nigerians. According to the organisers, the exercise kick started at the 2023 edition of Access Bank Lagos city marathon, and is also aimed at increasing the knowledge of HIV status among the beneficiaries and strengthen linkage and referral systems for people living with HIV. The press...

The Program Office of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Adamawa, Dr. Danladi Idrissa says over 800,000 women in Nigeria are living with Vesicovaginal fistula, with the majority in the northern part of the country. He disclosed this at the graduation ceremony of 50 fistula survivors at the Women Development Centre, Jimeta-Yola Adamawa State. “UNFPA in conjunction with the Fistula Foundation and the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development had conducted surgical repair of...