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HIV / AIDS
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The Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum is dedicated to helping members of the community become better educated on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a deadly disease primarily distributed through sexual contact. The MAYF library provides numerous books on HIV/AIDS, available free to the community. Below are additional sources of information on HIV/AIDS.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for global action on the epidemic. It leads, strengthens and supports an expanded response aimed at preventing transmission of HIV, providing care and support, reducing the vulnerability of individuals and communities to HIV/AIDS, and alleviating the impact of the epidemic.
Journalists Against AIDS Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental organisation in Nigeria working in the field of HIV/AIDS and development.
 

In The News
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People Living with HIV / AIDS (adults and children): Interactive world map displaying AIDS prevalence; multiple view types possible.
Click to read the article Reducing Stigma and Discrimination Surrounding HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, (EngenderHealth): Aina, pregnant with her fourth child, carries her two-month-old son across town to make her first antenatal visit at the Adeoyo Maternity Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. Arriving at the hospital, she collapses in the waiting room, saying "I feel so tired all the time, I do not have the energy to do anything." Dr. Ifasen calls Aina to come into the examining room and at first glance thinks to himself, "She looks ill and run-down, she must be HIV-positive."
Click to read more about Aids in Nigeria by AllAfrica.Com Leprosy, Malaria, HIV/Aids in Nigeria (AllAfrica.Com, Salisu N'inna Dambatta,
Lagos): THERE are currently 394 children among the new 4,799 cases of leprosy detected by agents of the Federal Ministry of Health. There is an incidence of 250,000 cases of all forms of Tuberculosis (TB) in the country. And 3.5 million Nigerians aged 15-49 years have been infected by HIV/AIDS. Sixty per cent of people visiting health institutions in Nigeria do so because of malaria.
Click to view start of photo essay HIV in Nigeria: Living on the Edge (AllAfrica.Com, by Jide Adeniyi-Jones): Nigerian photographer Jide Adeniyi-Jones traveled to southeast Nigeria early in 2003 to find out how communities were coping with the onslaught of HIV/Aids. He contributed these images and thoughts.
  Nigeria: HIV/AIDS (OneWorld.Net): News and information on HIV in Nigeria, from OneWorld.Net.
Photo of Dr Esther Obinya AIDS In Nigeria (Radio Netherlands, by Eric Beauchemin,): A catastrophe is beginning to unfold in Nigeria: AIDS. A decade after people in southern and eastern Africa started to discover the horrific consequences of the disease, Nigeria – the most populous nation in Africa – has yet to wake up to AIDS. Already over 6% of the population is infected. In some hospitals, admits the government, 60 to 70% of the cases are AIDS-related.
 
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