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Nigeria continues to grapple with a high number of AIDS-related deaths, with at least 15,000 fatalities recorded each year, despite government efforts to curb the spread of the disease, a local official revealed on Thursday...
Temitope Ilori, the head of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), made the announcement during an advocacy and sensitization event in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state in southwestern Nigeria..
According to official data, in 2023 alone, Nigeria recorded 75,000 new HIV infections and 45,000 deaths related to HIV/AIDS..
