Kano State Agency for the Control of AIDS, has sensitised students of Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano, on the importance of premarital screening to detect Hepatitis and HIV and AIDS.
The agency’s spokesman, Mr Aminu Bello stated on Sunday in Kano that the programme held on Saturday to increase prevention awareness on HIV and Hepatitis among adolescents, being the most vulnerable group.
He added that the agency’s Director of Prevention, Care and Treatment, Dr Sa’adatu Sale, said at the programme that it was committed to achieving UN targets to end new infection of the two viruses by 2030.
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Sale represented the Director-General of the agency, Dr Sabitu Shu’aibu, at the programme.
“The agency prioritised the issues of discouraging stigma and discrimination, thus encouraging premarital screening before solemnisation.
“We are also paying more attention to attendance of antenatal clinics for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV,’’ She said.
Sale charged the students to extend the vital information gathered to their peers, families and communities.
Earlier, the Deputy Provost, Administration at the College, Dr Muswalu Bello, expressed delight at the sensitisation, saying that the college had a composition of youths from the 44 local government areas of the state.
He noted that premarital screening was important because of the emergence of many new diseases that couldn’t be seen physically unless through clinical investigations. (NAN)
