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Chief Godswill Akpabio set to establish the state's HIV/AIDS control agency.

Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, said the bill establishing the state's HIV/AIDS control agency would be passed into law without further delay. The governor announced this at the annual general meeting and scientific conference of the Akwa Ibom State branch of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA).

Represented on the occasion by his deputy, Mr Nsima Ekere, Akpabio stated that the bill, which was recently passed by the state House of Assembly, would not only be passed into law, but that the agency would be well-funded to enable it meet its obligations.

He called for concerted efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the mother-to-child transmission of the pandemic, urging the NMA in the state to monitor development in the renewed international research for a cure for HIV/AIDS to ensure that the Akwa Ibom people will be among the first to benefit from a potential cure.

Akpabio disclosed that the state government has put together strong policies and programmes to strengthen the health care sector, give free medical treatment to pregnant women, children below the age of five and the aged, as well as the massive rehabilitation of health institutions across the state, in addition to the building of five new cottage hospitals.

Chief Godswill Akpabio set to establish the state's HIV/AIDS control agency.

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