Expert Raises Alarm On New HIV Spread, Cautions Against Stigmatisation
An expert who has been living positively with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for up to 13 years, has raised an alarm over the spread of new HIV infections, occasioned by the stigmatisation of people living with HIV (PLWH).
Executive Director of Care For All Organisation, Mrs Funmi Okafor, who spoke during the last World AIDS Day programme, in Lagos, lamented that stigma was one major factor that drives PLWH underground, compelling many to keep mum about their status and in attempts to hide their HIV status, end up living negatively, all to the detriment of the larger society.