NGO says 20,000+ households in Nasarawa have HIV/AIDS patients

Programme Manager of the CECDI, Aboki Jonah, disclosed this on Monday while speaking with newsmen in Lafia, he added that, the NGO was currently intervening to ameliorate the plights of persons living in those identified households.

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Jonah explained that the NGO’s intervention to those households included provision of block grant projects to schools where the children living with the virus, or children whose parents living with the virus, attend.

“We identified 6,000 households in Doma and 10,000 households in Lafia local government areas respectively. Whereas in Kokona, Keffi and Nasarawa Local Government Areas of the state, we got a total number of 10,005 households”.

Jonah said the interventions were the construction of classroom blocks, supply of furniture across the schools identified with persons in the households living with the HIV/AIDS.

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He continued that the CECDI has also constructed clinics at Tudun Abu and Sarkin Noma villages of Keana local government area, as well another clinic at Ohina Mada community of Doma local government area as parts of its intervention.

“The NGO is also into Households Economic Support Programme for persons living with the virus which it has disbursed its cash transfer assistance of N10,000 each to 250 beneficiaries drawn from Nasarawa, Keffi and Keffi council areas. We also trained 50 persons on skills acquisitions and equally equip them with start-up kits”, Jonah added.