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THE IMPEDIMENTS AND OTHERWISE OF NIGERIA’S POLICY ON HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC

Introduction HIV affects 37.9 million people worldwide, and 21% of those infected are completely unaware of their status as carriers. Grillo and UNAIDS estimate that Africa accounts for 69 percent of all new HIV infections and 91 percent of all HIV-positive children (2020). More than half of Africa's population lives in Nigeria, which has the second-largest HIV epidemic in the world (2020). Nigeria is expected to have the third-largest population ...

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