Scientist are getting close to ending the scourge of HIV/AIDS with the announcement that male circumcision and antiretroval (ARV) drugs significantly reduces new infections by over 90 percent by removing the foreskin-where there are a high number of HIV target cells.
The World Health Organization (WHO), encouraged by the findings published in the journal of American Medical Association, is already planning to circumcise 80 percent of men in the Sub-Saharan Africa to beat the disease. The Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Prof. John Idoko, reacting to the study, has said that ARV drugs are now recommended to be prescribed as soon as a person is diagnosed with HIV and efforts must be redoubled to scale up prevention programmes as Nigeria is planning to put all persons living with the virus on the life-saving drugs both for treatment and to prevent transmission of the disease.
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