Medical Researcher Decries Low Patronage Of HIV Prevention Services

A medical researcher, Prof. Oni Idigbe, on Friday expressed concern over the public’s low patronage of Prevention of Mother-to-Children Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services in Nigeria.

Idigbe, the Coordinator, Tuberculosis/HIV Programmes at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Yaba, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

The researcher, who said that the rate of counselling and testing of expectant mothers was very low, explained that lack of access and low patronage of PMTCT could thwart efforts at protecting future generations against HIV infection.

In a statement, he further said “We need to improve our PMTCT, our PMTCT is still very low, that is Prevention of Mother- to-Child Transmission.

culled: Leadership