About thirty five thousand HIV AIDs patients are getting treatment in Kano in order to mitigate the disease from further spread .
The state commissioner for Health Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa stated this while addressing a world press conference on World AIDS Day in Kano.
The commissioner said the 35 thousand patients are always taking care of by the state Government to ensure that they are treated.
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To prevent mother to child transmission Dr Tsanyawa added that 600 centres were created across the state to ensure that the diseases is not transmitted from mother to child.
He said as part of the commemoration the Kano first lady professor Hafsat Abdullahi Umar Ganduje will inaugurate public enlightenment at the Coronation Hall of Government House..
The commissioner of Health pointed out that the Governor’s wife will also seize the opportunity to empower people with HIV /AIDS and other vulnerable groups among others.
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