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First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu Seeks Improved Advocacy On TB, HIV/AIDS In Children … Says Campaign Would Be Taken To Nooks and Crannies
The First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON has said that advocacy on awareness and prevention of Tuberculosis is a priority, even as she re-echoed the fact that every child deserves a chance at a healthy and fulfilling life.
Senator Tinubu was speaking at the side event organized by Concordia at the ongoing 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York.
The First Lady spoke at the two separate sessions on Importance of innovation towards achieving an AIDS free generation and health standards and investment towards effectively financing the eradication of tuberculosis.
These were contained in a statement signed by Special Adviser, Media to the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mrs Bisola Kukoyi,
September 18, 2023
Senator Oluremi Tinubu said that on both tuberculosis and AIDS in children, Nigeria’s advocacy especially at the national, state and community levels would be pursued vigorously as Nigeria has no reason to have high statistics of prevalence in both areas.
She emphasized that with the heightened drive of the President Bola Tinubu Administration in the health sector, she will be advocating enhanced actions by the wives of governors from the states of the Federation to take the campaign about awareness and prevention to the grassroots.
“Innovative approaches can be employed to develop effective methods for HIV prevention. Educational technology hubs, educational apps and digital platforms can all be used to disseminate accurate information specific to HIV care and control.
“Advancement in testing facilitates early detection and prompt linkage to care thus preventing progression and transmission.
“Creative and culturally tailored age-appropriate interventions using technology and social media, can promote and amplify safer sexual and reproductive practices,” she said.
The First Lady seized the opportunity to explain that in Nigeria there is a robust program for combating TB through the National TB and Leprosy control program which is domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Health supervised by the Minister for Health.
She said that the Administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has come up with the Renewed Hope Agenda and has emphasized severally, the commitment to restructure the Health System in the country through improved financing, provision of modern equipment for diagnosis, capacity building, training of health care workers and transparency in governance as it regards TB response and health care delivery as a whole.
“We need to get people to speak up and know that early detection makes it treatable and we need to see that stigmatization is removed,” she said.
Other panelists included Dr Lucica Ditiu and Dr Jay Rajda, who both harped on the need for sustainable patnerships and improved funding.
Senator Oluremi Tinubu was one of the panelists at strategies to advanced global health standards and investments towards effectively financing the eradication of tuberculosis.
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