Boyo division hosts three HIV treatment centres with 4213 patients



The number of HIV infected patients in the Fundong health district covering Boyo division Boyo division hosts three HIV treatment centres with 4213 patients who are who currently on treatment with antiretroviral drugs in the three treatment centres at the Fundong District Hospital, St Martin Catholic General Hospital Njinikom and the Mbingo Baptist Hospital as of  31st December 2014 stand at 4213. The figure is contained in the 2014 annual report of the health district that was published recently. Out of this number, 2015 patients are women, 1933 are men and 263 are children less than 15 years of age.
The Njinikom Catholic Hospital treatment centre has the highest number of patients, 2404 in number, Mbingo Baptist Hospital careters for 1241 patients while the Fundong District Hospital has the least number of patients 568.
Talking to Boyo Eye at the close of the last coordination meeting for the year with chiefs of health centres at the conference room of his office on the 30th of December 2014, the District Medical Officer for Fundong Dr. Shu Walters said health staff in the district have been actively involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in all its facets through voluntary counselling and testing, prevention of mother to child transmission as well as care and treatment. This activity targeted especially youths in schools and other socio-cultural groups because this is said to be the most active group.That notwithstanding, many young  people particularly female students are still at high risk of contracting the virus because they are being lured into the act of sexual intercourse most at times for just few coins without even thinking of protecting themselves.
Dr. Shu Walters said in the course of the year 2014 close to 3000 tests for HIV were carried out in the health district but of this number less than 10% were positive cases and this to him meant that the population was adhering to the sensitisation messages dished out but he however admitted that the prevalence rate of HIV in the health district is increasing, that is the total number of people actually living with the disease. He said with the improvement in treatment, more patients are having access to antiretroviral drugs which make them to live better and longer lives as opposed to the situation before where many people saw AIDS patients as dead people.
Concerning counselling and testing  of pregnant women to prevent transmission from mother to child, 3376 of them were tested in 2014 with 142 positive cases registered giving a prevalence rate of 4.2%.

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