The social media influencer, @FirstDoctor, had alleged on Twitter that the Red Cross conducted an outreach in a community in Abuja, where it found 119 people positive to the virus out of the 197 tested.
The HIV/Aids control agency said it conducted a thorough investigation to determine the source of the claimed data but found that the Red Cross Society held no such outreach in Abuja, did not test anyone and did not release the outrageous statistics. “There was no such outreach conducted in Abuja, and the claim that 119 people tested positive out of 197 is false. The accurate data shows that Abuja’s HIV prevalence rate remains at 0.8% while Nigeria as a whole has a prevalence rate of 1.3%. Additionally, it is essential to clarify that no outreach anywhere in Nigeria could yield a positive rate of 60%. Such a high prevalence rate is not possible in Nigeria or any other country.
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