The Ondo State Ministry of Health says that the state government is doing its best to ensure that HIV programmes are strengthened in the state.
Pharmacist Foluke Aladenola, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, stated this on Thursday during the State HIV Programme Stakeholders’ Review meeting in Akure.
Aladenola stated that the state government had been able to provide HIV kits and consumables in health facilities across the state.
She appreciated collective efforts of all stakeholders to have made it possible for the prevalence of HIV in the state to be one of the lowest in the state.
The permanent secretary noted that the review meeting was to provide an avenue for the stakeholders to have an overall overview of their perfomances over a period of time.
Aladenola extended her appreciation to the state governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for provide enabling environment for the health sector to thrive.
Also speaking, Dr Abimbola Ariyo, the Head of Office, the APIN Public Health Initiatives in Ondo Region, said that the organisation had been able to identify many people who were HIV positive in the state in the last five years.
Ariyo noted that identified people had been put on active HIV treatment.
He said that the people cut across children, adolescents, young adults, adult, pregnant and breast-feeding women.
According to him, the health partner has been able to provide a lot of training for different categories of health workers so that they can improve their skills in providing quality HIV service delivery.
Ariyo added that no fewer than 30 comprehensive healthcare facilities were supported across 17 out of 18 local government areas of the state.
The Head of Office explained that the stakehokders’ meeting was to focus on how APIN Initiatives had fared since 2028 till date and what it needed to do more for wider coverage.
He appreciated the state government and the state Ministry of Health for allowing the organisation to work with them in tackling HIV in the state.
This medium reports that the Basic Health Centre, Ifon received an APIN award of the best performing health facility on HIV Case Finding while General Hospital, Ore received an APIN award of the best performing health facility on Retention, Tracking and Retaining of HIV Patients.
Others are: General Hospital, Ode Irele which received an APIN award of Best Performing Health Facility on Viral Load Coverage of HIV 2018 to 2022 while Comprehensive Health Centre, Oba Ile, got an APIN award of the best performing health facility on Viral Load Suppression on HIV Programme 2018 to 2022.
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