“A Concerted Effort Will Free The NWR From HIV”–PROF. TIH PIUS MUFFIH.

By Raymond Dingana.

The Director of the CBC Health Services, Professor Tih Pius Muffih has prescribed a Concerted Effort to free the NWR of Cameroon from HIV. He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the HIV- free COP 2019 Project to target 30000 new cases of HIV infected persons in the NWR and placed them under treatment.
“For the NWR to be free from HIV, we need a concerted effort. Every health care provider should work in a concerted way with the region. It is one project for the region and everybody that is involved in health care should be a part of the project so that we can bring the epidemic under control. If all hands are put on deck, we would be able to identify 30000 other new cases and place all of them on treatment in order to reach epidemic control”. Prof. Tih Pius Muffih Indicated.



                                      CBC Health Services Director, Prof. Tih Pius Muffih.

The CBC Health Services will be implementing the HIV-Free North West Project in Thirty Health Facilities carved out from Fifteen Health Districts which represent in total, 80% of persons leaving with HIV in the Region. The project is being supported by the US President’s Emergency fund for AIDS Relief also known as PEPFAR through the Center For Disease Control and Prevention also known as CDC.
The HIV prevalence rate in the region is said to have dropped from 6.35% IN 2011 to 4.8% in 2018. NW Regional Delegate of Public Health, Dr. Che Soh Kingsley says the CBC Health Services will still be providing them with a lot of support: “In addition to technical support that they have been giving, they are going to be giving Direct Service Delivery. This means that, the CBC Health Services will be supporting us with additional trained and experienced staff in the area of HIV management in order for us to achieve epidemic control and that is why we are aiming at testing about thirty thousand more people, linking those infected with treatment making sure that, they achieve viral suppression ” .



                                                NW Regional Delegate, Dr. Che Soh Kingsly.

 According to the Project Manager, Dr. Kome George, a plan has been conceived to take care of those who have been displaced, all in a bid to reach epidemic control:“We are going to find out if there are displaced people, dispense drugs to them, if there are some whose status are not known, we can do testing and initiate them on treatment. If we don’t, many of our clients will die. We have been having clients whom because of the crisis come back to the facility with what we called a state of Advanced Disease”. “We are insuring that, there will be follow up of those who are on treatment to ensure that, we have little or no defaulters because our aim is epidemic control” . He added.
It was also revealed at the launching of the Country Operational Plan for HIV control and management for 2019 that, Cameroon has the highest HIV prevalence in West and Central Africa ranging from 5.3% in 2004 to 3.4% in 2018. It was also disclosed that, about 62,661 persons are leaving with HIV while about 36,626 are currently on treatment in the NWR.





CBC Health Services Director Talking To The Press.


NW Regional Delegate for Public Health.



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