{"id":14758,"date":"2021-05-21T07:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=14758"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:52:26","slug":"internally-displaced-persons-have-highest-rate-of-hiv-aids-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/internally-displaced-persons-have-highest-rate-of-hiv-aids-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Internally displaced persons have highest rate of HIV\/Aids infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internally displaced persons, especially married couples, are more likely to get infected with HIV\/Aids than any other group \u2212 statistics show that they have the highest rate of infection in Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Dayyabu Ali, a medical technician at Mustapha Laboratory in Maiduguri, said there was little awareness and knowledge about HIV\/Aids among internally displaced persons and most individuals did not go for regular, if any, check-ups.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, because of repeated attacks by extremists, particularly in northeastern Nigeria, millions of people had been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>Internally displaced persons\u2019 camps are congested. The residents are often neglected, stigmatised and face difficulties in accessing basic services.<\/p>\n<p>They are affected by grave violations of human rights and widespread sexual and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>Ali said a report produced about two months ago showed that all internally displaced persons, but particularly married couples, were more likely to be infected with and affected by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMostly one spouse is positive and does not tell their spouse, who ultimately gets infected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said there needed to be more awareness programmes and more people needed to go for testing. Most non-governmental organisations \u2013 as well as state clinics and hospitals \u2212 could assist those who tested positive and would supply antiretroviral drugs to control the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne woman told me that she had been positive for more than 10 years but she had not informed her husband. I advised her to tell her husband so that if he tested positive he would be given antiretroviral medication,\u201d Ali said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge everyone to get regular check-ups, especially if you intend marrying someone,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But one man interviewed said: \u201cI will check my HIV status only if the family of the woman I want to marry make it compulsory for me to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another man said: \u201cI have never gone to check on my status. But every three months I donate blood so I know I\u2019m not HIV positive. If I was positive, the blood service would have informed me.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)<\/em> attacks and kills CD4 cells, which are a type of immune cell called T cell. HIV is spread by contact with certain bodily fluids \u2013 blood, semen, vaginal and rectal fluids and breast milk \u2212 of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing injection drug equipment. It is If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease Aids (<em>acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internally displaced persons, especially married couples, are more likely to get infected with HIV\/Aids than any other group \u2212 statistics show that they have the highest rate of infection in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":14760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26923,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions\/26923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}