HIV/AIDS Counselling & Testing.
HEALTH PROJECTS IN 2015 :HIV/AIDS Counselling & Testing.
While HIV now affects every country in the world, it has reached epidemic proportions across large parts of Africa. A crucial workplace issue and a major development challenge, the HIV epidemic poses a serious threat to the health and livelihoods of working women and men and has serious implications for enterprises, as well as for national and regional economies.
The global response to HIV and AIDS is at a critical juncture. Nowhere is this more evident than in the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the global total of 34 million women and men living with HIV today, the vast majority—an estimated 23.5 million or 69 percent—live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the overwhelming majority—92 percent—of all pregnant women living with HIV and 90 percent of the world’s children living with HIV live in this sub-region. Women are particularly affected, representing close to 58 per cent of those living with HIV in the sub-region. The majority—71per cent—of all AIDS-related deaths worldwide in 2011 were recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa.
WHERE BBSLOF COMES IN
Significant challenges continue to confront African and Nigeria in particular has it own share of the epedemic.
It is our vision to see a substantial reduction in new HIV infections and an increased level of resilience to HIV and AIDS among vulnerable men and women workers and their families.
The foundation received Sponsorship from Global Fund/Society for Family Health (SHF) to carry out an intervention among IDU/DU using the Peer Education (PEP) Module, in Maraba Rido and U/Boro of Kaduna State.
By that year 2015, BBSLOF has succefully counseled and tested 26,956 persons in Kaduna State-Nigeria.
The global response to HIV and AIDS is at a critical juncture. Nowhere is this more evident than in the region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the global total of 34 million women and men living with HIV today, the vast majority—an estimated 23.5 million or 69 percent—live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the overwhelming majority—92 percent—of all pregnant women living with HIV and 90 percent of the world’s children living with HIV live in this sub-region. Women are particularly affected, representing close to 58 per cent of those living with HIV in the sub-region. The majority—71per cent—of all AIDS-related deaths worldwide in 2011 were recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa.
WHERE BBSLOF COMES IN
Significant challenges continue to confront African and Nigeria in particular has it own share of the epedemic.
It is our vision to see a substantial reduction in new HIV infections and an increased level of resilience to HIV and AIDS among vulnerable men and women workers and their families.
By that year 2015, BBSLOF has succefully counseled and tested 26,956 persons in Kaduna State-Nigeria.
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