Nigeria Accounts for 48 Per Cent New HIV Infections

According to The Gap Report released yesterday by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda - account for 48 per cent of all new HIV infections.

Nigeria is one of the 15 countries accounting for over 75 per cent of the 2.1 million new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infections that occurred in 2013.

The UNAIDS report also showed that Nigeria is one of the six countries with little progress in ending HIV transmission.

The report also listed the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia and South Sudan as facing triple threat of high HIV burden, low treatment coverage and little or no decline in new HIV infections.