THESE are not the best of times for persons in the various Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Taraba State, as they are being battered by various deadly diseases and health conditions like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and measles.One of those who are currently finding refuge at the camps, Mrs. Comfort Ivase, told The Guardian that this is so because those who are supposed to care for their needs have abandoned her and her colleagues.
She added that she and her colleagues are presently not only being deprived of access to HIV drugs, their dreams to halt the transmission of the diseases to their unborn children is being dashed.
With tears rolling down her rough cheeks, she told The Guardian recently during a visit to one of the IDPs camps in Bali Local Government Council of the state how new mothers in the camps are daily forced to transmit the virus to their infants.
“The I-don’t-care attitude of the state government towards the people in the refugee camp, especially those of us living with HIV, has made it impossible for those of us that are pregnant to deliver our babies without transmitting the virus to them,” she lamented.
SOURCE: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/saturday-magazine-sp-39442427/187464-displaced-persons-at-the-mercy-of-hiv-measles-in-taraba
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