14 Internally Displaced Persons Test Positive To HIV In Yobe

Fourteen out of the 2,109 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, screened for HIV in Yobe State, have tested positive to the virus.

Those who tested positive, 10 from Nguru and four from Gashua have all been referred to Anti Retroviral Therapy, ART, at the Federal Medical Center, in Nguru for care and treatments.

The screening was carried out by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS & NACA. Its Project Coordinator, Dr Aminu Fikin, disclosed the exercise was designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate the risk of transmission of HIV in the state, he says the exercise also covered Borno and Adamawa States.