Mr Buhari presided over the cabinet meeting where N8.6 billion was approved for construction of a vaccine laboratory and purchase of test kits for HIV/AIDS and Syphilis.
The development necessitated setting up of advocacy platforms as a strategy in the fight against the disease, an official said.
“It is not the PMTCT that is not working. It is the strategy that we have to tweak. If you look at the numbers we had as far back as 2006; we had about 13,000 women on treatment.”
A first administration of the vaccine among 48 trialists returned a 97 per cent success, according to the EPR report.
The medical practitioner described tuberculosis as a twin to HIV/AIDS.
“Condoms are always in fashion, let us continue to use them in the correct way.”
