Updates from our programmes, research and the communities we serve.
We have joined the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) COVID-19 Active Case Finding Team to offer free HIV Testing Services in communities like Gishiri, Mabushi and Mpape in the FCT. More than 130 interested persons presenting for a COVID-19 test have also been tested for HIV.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), Dr. Patrick Dakum has called on the public to continue to wash hands regularly and properly to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Dr.
Believe Odibie was curious when he noticed some patients running out of General Hospital Issele-Uku into the bush. He observed this happen for up to four times from his nearby farm of vegetables, yam and cassava and decided to ask hospital staff about it while visiting a patient…
There were all sorts of rumors making the rounds when Olowookere Fasilat was brought back home in 2013 to Okeho, Oyo State very ill from her school in Moshood Abiola Polytechnic Abeokuta.
Binta Gwer has never seen the four walls of a classroom. She says that while growing up, her parents believed that the girl-child sent to school would end up in prostitution. Binta who is now 25 years old, has resolved to ensure that her daughter and two sons go to school.
Idowu Kayode had lost six pregnancies. Each time a miscarriage occurred, it was usually with a lot of blood loss. She recalls that in 2002 when she discovered her HIV positive status, she had given up on life.
These women are happy not because they no longer live with HIV but because they see concrete reason to be euphoric – the HIV in their blood stream have become successfully suppressed so much so that the virus in every one of them is now undetectable.
The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has commenced a project aimed at motivating adolescents and young persons living with HIV to consistently utilize free HIV care and treatment services available in the hospital, attend support group meetings, correctly take their…
To mark the International day for the elimination of violence against women, with the theme, ‘Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape”, the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), has organized a walk and talk to educate the public about gender-based…
The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has sensitized over 50 health care workers on the process of enrolling and referring orphans and vulnerable children for HIV prevention, and care services in one day training in Abuja.
The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) is to have grand opening of its International Research Center of Excellence (IRCE) along airport road in Abuja.
To strengthen the country’s capacity to prevent and respond to disease outbreaks, the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) in collaboration with the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has trained laboratory scientists on Laboratory Quality Management Systems in…
