38,000 unidentified persons living with HIV in Imo—Ihedioha

Governor Emeka Ihedioha of Imo State has said there were about 38,000 unidentified people living with Human Immune Virus, HIV, in the state, adding that the prevalence rate, which placed the state above the 1.4 percent, was saddening.

Governor Ihedioha made the revelation yesterday in Owerri, while annoucing free treatment for all persons living with HIV, in the state, in a scheme termed Antiretroviral Therapy, ART, Surge Response.

According to him, “we are saddened with the statistics of the prevalence rate in the state. We are fully committed to identifying the 38,000 persons said to be living with HIV, and enlisting them for treatment.

“All fees previously charged by government medical establishments for the treatment of HIV are, hereby, banned. Any government official or employee that violates this directive would face commensurate sanction.”

I was mad for one month after boyfriend used my panties for ritual— Physiotherapist

A 32-year-old lady, Rachael Godwin, yesterday, gave a startling account of how she narrowly escaped death, after her boyfriend allegedly used her panties for money ritual.
Rachael, a physiotherapist, said she went mad for close to a month after the incident, but regained her sanity after undergoing prayer sessions at an unnamed church in Lagos.
Rachael, a staff of the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Yaba, explained that she met her boyfriend, identified simply as Olumide, in January last year, inside a BRT bus, enroute Ikeja from Ikorodu.
According to her, “when we got talking inside the BRT, he directed me on how to get to the Police headquarters and we exchanged contacts in the process.
“Thereafter, in the course of our interactions, he told me he had a Sexually Transmitted Disease, STD, and I administered treatment on him.