The Chairman, Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy And Malaria (BACATMA), Dr Muhammad Alkali, says some HIV positive couples have given birth to 72 negative and healthy babies in the state.
Alkali disclosed this at a news conference to mark the 2018 World AIDS Day celebration in Bauchi on Sunday.
“Around 156 HIV couples in the state have kicked the dreaded infection in the womb with medical interventions.
“The 72 babies of HIV-positive couples have delivered them healthy and negative of HIV,” Alkali said.
According to him, since the establishment of the agency in 2008, it organised and supported matched making marriages of 156 couples resulting in the delivery of 72 babies tested negative.
He said the agency also procured and distributed 120,000 units of HIV rapid test kits to 323 health facilities to strengthen prevention of mother to child transmission of the virus.
(NAN)