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operations can ruin a nationAt Least 33 Dead As Tornadoes Ravage Central USNigeria pushing hungry youths towards revolution — ObasanjoNDLEA intercepts cocaine concealed in prayer beads, shoesSERAP sues Akpabio over Natasha’s suspensionDAILIES TOP STORIES: Niger begs Nigeria for petrol despite tense relationsEdo policeman ‘shoots’ teenage driver dead for not stopping at checkpointNigerian ‘swindles’ $183,000 from American woman in online scamTo stay alive, Qur’an recitation winner, family needs to pay N30m fee to Katsina banditsKano clarifies A’Court’s judgment on Sanusi’s reinstatement as emirRivers crisis: I won’t stop assembly from performing duties — Wike16-yr-old girl commits suicide in GombeAngry Protesters destroy Wike’s billboardsUK govt asks Nigerian nurses under investigation for ‘exam fraud’ to leave — ReportRivers SSG Warns Against Taking Fubara’s Simplicity For WeaknessTop Islamic State Leader KilledTrump plans travel ban on 43 countriesIndependent findings by FactWatch 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Akwa Ibom, Benue have highest number of HIV positive persons, says NACA

The LATEST quarterly factsheet of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed that that two states – Akwa Ibom and Benue – have the highest number of HIV positive persons in the country.

According to the report, 48 out of every 1,000 persons selected at random in the states are likely to test positive for HIV, which is higher than the national average – 13 in every 1,000 persons.

This brings the HIV prevalence rate in Nigeria to 1.3 per cent, according to the 2018 Nigeria HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS

Other states, like Taraba, Anambra and Abia, have the next highest HIV prevalence rate of 2.6, 2.2, and 2.0 per cent.

The report shows that states in the North have the lowest HIV prevalence rate.

Speaking with The Nation on the trends of HIV prevalence across Nigeria, NACA Director-General Dr. Gambo Aliyu said: “This is largely first because of behaviour.

    • Pascal Arogorn Ibe

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