By David Nsa Principals and Head Teachers of schools in Cross River State have been urged not to stop Health Workers from carrying out HIV/AIDS counseling and testing in their school. The call was made by the President Association of Resident Doctors, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (ARD-UCTH) chapter Dr. Antigha Cobham on air recently
By Jonathan Ugbal: Government House Correspondent and Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent Cross River Governor, Senator Ben Ayade has called on Nigerians to always seek to know their HIV status and reflect on their actions as a means to curbing increasing rate of people living with HIV/AIDS. The Governor, represented by his wife, Dr. Linda Ayade
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent A consultant for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Health Finance and Governance (HFG) initiative, Dr. Janet Ekpenyong has said that mobilizing resources at the domestic level is the most sustainable of way to fund health interventions in Nigeria. Ekpenyong disclosed this in an interview with CrossRiverWatch on
By Elijah Ugani: Health Correspondent There is a smart plan being put in place to ensure zero rates are recorded in mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV/AIDS as well as those of hepatitis B says the Cross River State government in different fora over the week. The health commissioner, Inyang Asibong and the director general of
By Sylvia Etta Following the listing of Cross River state as one of the HIV endemic states by the National Action Committee on AIDS, NACA, the State Government says it plans to institutionalize a policy that will sustain the fight against HIV/AIDS in the state. Mr. Roy Ndoma-Egba, Special Adviser, Department of International Donor Cooperation