Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
The National Blood Transfusion Center, NBIS has declared a scary verdict that Rivers State,South-South region has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Nigeria today.
The Donor Care Manager National Blood Transfusion Center, Rivers State, Imaobong Umah ,said the latest statistics showed that Rivers State has toppled Benue as the state with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.
Imaobong Umah that out of three million HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria, Rivers State has the highest number of people suffering from the virus.
The Donor Care Manager, National Blood Transfusion Center Rivers State Imaobong Umah also lamented that the agency expressing shortage of blood in its blood bank due to unwillingness of people to donate blood.
Rivers State is the headquarters of hydrocarbon industry in Nigeria that attracts people of different nationalities into the state, with also attendant increase in the number of sex workers who engage in unprotected sex thereby increasing the spread.