Nigeria: State Action Committee on AIDS to be transformed into an agency to ensure the passage of new anti-HIV stigmatisation bill into law

4 April 2013

Source: Dailypost

Home > State > Akwa-Ibom > Akwa Ibom to enact law against HIV/AIDS stigmatisation By Nkechi on April 3, 2013 Chairman, Akwa Ibom State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Dr Francis Udoikpong, has said that the government will soon enact a law against stigmatization of persons living with HIV/AIDS in Akwa Ibom state.

Nigeria: State Action Committee on AIDS to be transformed into an agency to ensure the passage of new anti-HIV stigmatisation bill into law

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