In its bid to realise the United Nations’ target of ending HIV/AIDS by 2030, the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, has partnered with the state Health Insurance Management Agency.
The Chief Executive Officer of LSACA, Dr Mosurat Adeleke, on Monday, said the partnership would help in attaining global epidemic control of HIV by 2025. She said, “We’ve developed new set of interventions strategies to ensure that we meet up with the target that has been set globally; we are trying to attain global epidemic control of HIV by 2025 and we want to eradicate completely new infections by 2030.
“We are partnering with LASHMA in order to scale up completely the package that is entrenched into the state’s health insurance scheme. It is worthy of note to say that this is one of its kind in Nigeria in terms of the scope of services that LASHMA is integrating in their health insurance scheme for HIV.
“They are able to accommodate ANT testing in clinics. This is going to be instrumental for us in achieving a whole lot. Like the prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Nigeria, for instance, the coverage is very low, it is about 37 per cent. With all of this that we are doing, it will help us to achieve more and to get more targets settled in the HIV space.”
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