He decried increasing violence visited on doctors by anguished relatives of patients and asked for an end to the misnomer.
WHO figures on Wednesday showed that some 98 per cent of the reported cases involved men who have sexual contact with multiple other men.
Mr Akintade stressed that frequent and thorough hand washing with soap and water remained one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Mongolia has reported 323 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours.
The pilot programme of $155.7 million will include Ghana, Malawi and Kenya; while other African countries will key in from January 2023.
Indonesia has recorded 3,822 new cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday, almost seven times higher than the 551 cases registered one month ago.
The UN health agency is keeping an eye on the puzzling spread of hepatitis in previously healthy children.
UN humanitarian partners have delivered food and nutrition assistance to no fewer than 26,000 people in the past week in the town of Rann in Borno.
The outbreak of an unknown disease has claimed the lives of no less than 20 children in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.
Disclosing that the abuse of paracetamol affects the liver, the commissioner urged Nigerians to keep strictly to prescriptions.
