The South-West Zonal Office of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, has commenced work with other stakeholders in the zone to assist Ogun State on its one-point six per cent HIV/AID prevalence rate is the highest in the Southwest region.

The Southwest Coordinator of NACA, Mrs. Ronke Adeoye while speaking at an event in Abeokuta, said the agency has been working with other stakeholders to ensure that the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is reduced to the barest minimum in the region.

Mrs. Adeoye disclosed that Ogun State with 1.6 per cent was followed by Lagos at 1.4 per cent and Ondo State with 1.1 per cent.

She explained that Oyo and Osun States both have 0.9 per cent while the lowest in the Southwest was Ekiti state with 0.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Agency for the Control of AIDS, OGSACA, has embarked on aggressive community testing, counselling and campaigning to drastically reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS by 95 per cent by 2030.

The Executive Secretary of OGSACA, Mr. Kehinde Fatungase, who did not reveal the number of the sex workers that tested positive for the virus during the exercise said over four thousand sex workers have so been tested for HIV/AIDS during the campaign.

Wale Oluokun