Real stories from people and communities reached by IHVN programmes.
Figure Above: Kafilat Ajao, client receiving tuberculosis services, discusses with health care provider, Opasina Oladayo 38 year old Kafilat Ajao felt her health condition was hopeless after five months of visiting ‘home-based treatment centers’ in her state, Oyo, in South West…
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.
One of the worries Caroline Udoh has had since she commenced anti-retroviral treatment in 2007 is her transportation cost of ₦300 or more to the hospital for drug pick-up every two months.
In 2005, Christopher Leo was very sick with severe arthritis and on admission at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH), Gwagwalada. His situation was so pathetic because his wife died of AIDS leaving behind two children to care for.
In 2006, Sa'adatu Mohammed would have been buried and gone forever – a grave was already prepared for her remains. Sa’aadatu, who had been critically sick, passed out momentarily.
