Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD)

Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDISD) Uncovers New Strategies to Increase Uptake of HIV Test among Nigerian Youth Since 1988, the world has picked every first of December as a day to spread awareness on HIV and come together to unite against the epidemic. The 2019 World Aids Day was themed, ‘Communities making a difference’ as it became apparent that all hands must be on deck to reduce the problems of HIV epidemic. 1 Some of these problems include death of the persons living with the disease, graduating of HIV to AIDS, increased spreading of the disease and transferring of the virus from mother to child among other problems. The virus was identified in 1984 and, since the beginning of the epidemic, 75 million people have been infected with the HIV virus (sic) and about 32 million people have died of HIV. 2  In 2018, 37.9 million people were recorded to be living with HIV with African region being most severely affected as nearly 1 in every 25 adu...