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Nigerian First Lady Launches NAWOCA

Written by Adeleke Afolayan

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

In order to check the rising rate of HIV/AIDS, the Nigerian First Lady Turai Yar'Adua has launched the National Women Coalition against HIV/AIDS for states in the North-West with the aim of public enlightenment and improved advocacies on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.

Speaking in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, Hajia Yar'Adua urged stakeholders to sustain efforts in ensuring women get access to total healthcare services, stressing the need to strengthen the gender component of human development with the emphasis on women.

Also speaking at the launch, wife of the Nasarawa State Governor Hajia Raliyatu Doma said women in the region would continue to receive the support of NAWOCA, just as she launched the State Chapter of the Coalition.

The occasion had in attendance the Nasarawa State Governor Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma, First Lady of Niger Republic Madame Laraba Tandja and the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) Professor Babatunde osotimehin.

NAWOCA will be present in Nasarawa State, Kwara, Plateau, Kogi, Niger and Benue States as well as the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.

Nasarawa, Plateau, Kogi, Niger, Kwara, Benue and Federal Capital Territory, in Lafia Nasarawa State.

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