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IHVN improving the lives of OVCs in Abak

HIS MOTHER died on the 24th of May, 2011 barely three weeks after his birth, leaving him vulnerable and in dire need of care since his 23-year old father and grandmother who is sickly could not shoulder the burden of caring for a baby. Also, no member of his...

(ACTIONnews April-June. 2011)

PMTCT Saves Twin Babies

Three happy mothers made their way to Institute of Human Virology Nigeria(IHVN) supported Mararaba Guruku Medical Centre for a support group meeting of mothers and pregnant women living with HIV. They are not just mothers living with HIV, they are...

(ACTIONnews January-March. 2011)

Sa'adatu's rise from the dead

Four years ago, Sa'adatu Mohammed would have been buried and gone forever – a grave was already prepared for her remains. That she passed out, momentarily, was not a surprise because she was critically sick and just waiting for a little time to give up the...

(ACTIONnews September-December. 2010)

CDC International Director in Nigeria

A NEW state-of-the-art National Reference Laboratory that would allow laboratory scientists to isolate different types of Tuberculosis (TB) and test the resistant variants in a very safe laboratory has been established at the National TB/Leprosy Training Center (NTBTC) in Zaria, Nigeria...

(ACTIONnews July-August. 2010)

US Deputy Secretary of State Visits AKTH

The US DEPUTY Secretary of State, Management and Resources, Mr. Jacob Lew, has described the health intervenion programs of the Institutte of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) in Kano, as a reflection of...

(ACTIONnews May-June. 2010)

US Global Coordinator Commissions Clinical Training Center

The UNITED STATES Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Goosby, has commended the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeri (IHVN) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for providing care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (ACTION) Project which is...

(ACTIONnews March-April. 2010)

ACTION Clients Take to Farming

MANY people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Otukpo in Benue State, Nigeria are poor. A great number of them have lost either their jobs or the strength to work because of ill health. But this is not so for members of Otabo Support Group of People Living with HIV/AIDS, who are running a four-hectare farm in Akpegede village in...

(ACTIONnews January-February. 2010)