LSACA
The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) in collaboration with Nigeria Business Coalition Against AIDS (NIBUCAA), Fast-Track City Project and United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), has sensitised 30 Private Sector Human Resource Managers on HIV/AIDs workplace policy.
The CEO of LSACA, Dr. Monsurat Adeleke, in a statement, stated that in 2016, Lagos State signed on to the Global target on HIV epidemic control by 2025 and eradication of new infections by the year 2030, saying “there is a need for the implementation of the Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS”.
She highlighted the importance and the need for the adoption of such policy document at the workplaces to include HIV prevention, stigma/discrimination reduction and increased access to free HIV care as well as treatment services by the HIV-positive workforce in the state.
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Dr. Adeleke further reaffirmed that HIV/AIDS is no more a death sentence once there is strict adherence to Anti-retroviral drug regimen because such client is expected to attain viral suppression that will result in U=U (Undetectable =Untransmutable) status.
She emphasised the commitment of the present administration in ensuring the wellbeing of the citizenry, especially the youths, noting that they constitute about 43% of the state’s population and the nation’s workforce.
CEO of LSACA, Dr. Monsurat Adeleke
Dr. Adeleke averred that Lagos State, being a trailblazer, has led the HIV response in Nigeria with the support of the Implementing Partners, stressing the workplace policy on HIV/AIDS will increase HIV prevention, awareness campaign and stigma reduction in the state.
Thanking the NIBUCAA and others for the collaboration with the state in making the workshop a success, she also educated the participants on COVID-19 infection, prevention and control methods.
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