Ajimobi undergoes HIV test, warns against stigmatisation

Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has called on the people of the state to desist from stigmatising people living with HIV/AIDS.
The governor made the call on Thursday shortly before submitting himself for HIV/AIDS test with some members of the state Executive Council.
The test was carried out during the inauguration of a mass testing and counselling on HIV, entitled ‘Know your status,’ as part of activities marking the World AIDS Day.
Ajimobi said the free HIV test and counselling embarked upon by the state Agency for Control of AIDS was part of the state government’s resolve to eliminate HIV from the state.
He said HIV/AIDS had been a major challenge to the world, stressing that the havoc caused by the disease had made the state to wage a war against the virus.
Ajimobi said, “Not only is HIV/AIDS real, its havoc is vivid for all to see. In many countries in Africa, the reality of its corrosive nature has forced the people to see the disease as more fatal to society than a war. It is said that even in a war situation, a nation cannot lose as many as it loses to the unguarded missiles of HIV/AIDS spread.
“If the loss of the disease is comparable to that of a war situation, it is thus incumbent on a nation to prepare its frontiers against the missiles of this subtle war.”