 Tarabah State is set to commence a second awareness campaign on HIV-8 to reduce the incidence to zero percent. This time around, it is in collaboration between the United States government and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA. The Director General of NACA, Gambo Aliu, who led the delegation of USA to Jalingo, said that while the world continued to battle COVID-19, attention cannot be taken off the deadly HIV and AIDS, which still has no cure or vaccine. Our correspondent filed in this report. The United States Chargery Affair to Nigerian Cadillade Fitgipon is part of the delegation's Government House Jalingo. Their mission is to intimate the governor on the commencement of second-phase campaign on HIV, in view of calling the killer virus at means of COVID-19 pandemic. The DG of NACA says the agency is impressed with the medical structure put in place by Governor Darius Ishaku, which they believe will go a long way in curbing the spread of HIV. Your ability to link the 150 primary healthcare with these three specialists for supervision, your ability to train traditional medical attendants to attend to pregnant women in the rural areas, give us health and confidence. Governor Darius Ishaku told the delegation that through jollybred and consented effort of his administration in less than a decade, the prevalence rate in the states has jumped from 10.5 in 2012 to 2.9 as of 2018, while the level of stigmatization has gone down drastically through high sensitization. I remember it was Taraba and I think that beer. And so I left my letter of plea to the team. I was pleasantly surprised when I met Kathleen and she told me she's coming today. And that one of the key points was to reactivate and give us the HIV assistance. The United States Chargedy Affair to Nigeria Kathleen Feed Gibbon believes Taraba offers good grounds for the collaborations in HIV and AIDS. She's impressed by medical facilities put in place by government, promising to meet critical stakeholders and chance a way forward on their next line of action. Because ultimately the people living with HIV are living within these states. And we challenge the governors to do a number of things. Help allocate more resources towards HIV, end user fees and stigmatization. The more you see an executive governor setting an example and talking about HIV and making people feel comfortable to go in and identify whether or not they have HIV, that's the first step towards ending the epidemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has joined the attention of key players away from HIV and AIDS killer, which is yet to get medical breakthrough. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.