How to prevent HIV /AIDS

Manager, Project Management Team (PMT), HIV/AIDS Prevention Unit, Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Co-oporative, Mrs. Titilayo-Onu Abaraham, has identified testing as a key to the prevention of HIV/AIDS.

She called on people to go for regular testing.

According to her, knowing your HIV status would prevent the disease from infecting others.

Abaraham made this known at the unit’s testing, sentisisation and counselling programme for farmer’s association members in Badagry division of Lagos State.

She said HIV/AIDS can be managed, stressing that one can be positive and still look healthy like every other person.

She added that this can only be achieved if the virus is noticed early enough and the person living with the disease starts medications immediately.

PMT member, Mrs Shola Faboyode, advised the farmers to ensure they protect themselves from sexual intercourse and prevent themselves from every other thing that could make them contact the virus.

She noted that the use of sharp objects that had been infected as a way of also contacting the disease.

Faboyode identified the sharp objects to include blades, knife, needle, clippers as well as farm tools, among others.