‘HIV can kill faster than the drug abuse’: Nigeria opens first needle exchange to tackle infection

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The programme, seen as a shift in attitudes in a zero-tolerance country, is aimed at curbing the spread of blood-borne disease

. As of 2018, there were about 80,000 injectable drug users in the country.

It is the habit of sharing needles and syringes that predispose people to those blood-borne infectionslaunched in Oyo, Abia and Gombe states in July, delayed by the pandemic and logistics between the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the ministry of health. Abiola is impressed: “Now I know better about things like naloxone [used to reverse the effects of opioids] and methadone.

 

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Trust me on this one, but the viral infection HIV is as about as harmless as Hep C as long as the infected person keeps regularly exercising. An good example is the professional basketball player Magic Johnson who, rather than be perceived as an medical marvel, makes sense.

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