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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   6 HIV/AIDS counselling centres for Imo, Abia By Vincent Ujumadu Monday, December 13, 2004 UMUAHIA — SIX HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counselling and Testing, VCT, centres are to be established in Abia and Imo states by the Total Development Organisation, TDO — a non-governmental organisation based in Abia State in collaboration with the National Action Committee on AIDS, NACA. Executive Director of TDO, Mrs. Ngozi Uduma said during a two-day training programme on HIV/AIDS education for media practitioners in Umuahia that two of the centres would be cited in Imo while the remaining four would be in Abia. The two centres for Imo, she said, would be located at the Imo Transport Corporation, ITC Park, Owerri and at the Expressway Park, Okigwe, while the four in Abia would be located at Aba Main Motor Park, Ariaria Motor Park in Aba, Umuahia Main Motor Park and Okigwe Road Motor Park also in Umuahia. According to her, the choice of the parks was due to the heavy human traffic in those areas and because they harbour a target grassroots population which are difficult to reach. A special component of the programme, she explained, is the care and support of people living with HIV/AIDS, PLWHAS, adding that VCT has become a global entry point to prevention, care and support of the victims of the scourge and those living with it. She listed the advantages of VCT to include the fact that it creates a more realistic self-perception of clients’ vulnerability to HIV, provides behaviours that help to prevent acquisition or further transmission, helps the client to make informed choice for the future, creates peer educators and helps to reduce denial, stigma and discrimination. Addressing the participants, the state Commissioner of Health, Dr. Kalu Ndukwe who spoke through the Director of Medical Services, Dr. Johnson Uzoatuegwu described as worrisome the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS scourge in the state, adding that the state government would always encourage training programmes that would enhance the control and prevention of the dreaded disease.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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