Condom Use Can Reverse HIV/AIDS – Report

Recently, the Kaduna State Media Corporation in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Kaduna State Agency for the Control of AIDS (KASACA), had an awareness meeting to   deliberate on the current HIV situation in the state. It involved among others, how the state has fared and what needs to be done to reverse the trend. WINIFRED OGBEBO who was there, reports.

In 2008, a study conducted by the National AIDS Reproductive Health Survey (NARHS), put the HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Kaduna State at 7 per cent, and in 2011, another study put the prevalence rate at 5.1 per cent. That means for every 100 people, five are positive.

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New Orleans pastor known as 'Da Condom Father' couldn't just watch people die: Jarvis DeBerry

Bruce Davenport, pastor of St. John No. 5 Faith Church in Gentilly, said he was given an ultimatum by the Baptist convention to which he used to belong. He could keep calling himself and his church Baptist and cease with his distribution of condoms. Or he could keep passing out condoms and stop calling himself Baptist. His nickname, "Da Condom Father," makes plain which option he chose.

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Recent HIV numbers strengthen argument for teaching abstinence and safe sex (Video)