As Nigeria joins the rest of the world today in marking the 2013 World AIDS Day, NMA in a statement said the nation can lower the prevalence rate from 3.4 per cent to less than 2 per cent in the next five years.
It therefore enjoined the government to make the goal a cardinal objective.
"NMA urges governments at all levels, to make reduction of HIV/AIDS
prevalence and eradication a cardinal objective and as a priority
project as budget appropriation activities are gearing up for the next
fiscal year at various legislative houses in the country," the association said.
It also urged Nigerian doctors, the organised private sector, other stakeholders and the citizens to scale up their support for reduction of HIV/AIDS prevalence
and Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
The association also expressed its solidarity with all the categories of healthcare workers involved in
awareness, advocacy, diagnosis, treatment, care and support of the
patients and funding of HIV/AIDS programmes.
"We empathise with the families of the unfortunate ones who succumbed to
the cold hands of death due to the complications of the dreaded viral
infection. We wish all the orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) who
owe their present statuses to the disease, very well. Nigerian Medical
Association appreciates quite immensely the large heartedness of funding
agencies, and resourcefulness of implementing/development partners
whose efforts have converted the perception of this scourge from that of
a death sentence to one with hope," NMA president said in the statement.
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