About Us
The Passion
This stemmed from the death of a young South African boy, Nkosi Johnson who before his death in 2001 pleaded with the world to care for children and mothers suffering from HIV/AIDS. Consequently, Drugs for AIDS and HIV Patients (DAHP) was founded by Professor Moji Adeyeye in 2003 through the burden that she had about the pandemic of AIDS in Africa and the devastation on the fabric of the society. In Nigeria, the rise in the epidemic from 1.8% in 1991 to about 4.4% according to Nigeria’s UNGASS 2008 Report. Currently, less than 10% of children who need treatment are receiving anti-retroviral therapy
http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008/nigeria_2008_country_progress_report_en.pdf
http://cfs.unaids.org/country_factsheet.aspx?ISO=NIE
The Vision
Our founder saw Africa as a very huge evergreen tree that gradually started losing the leaves and branches which represent the people of Africa dying of AIDS. She also saw in her mind a very huge axe at the bottom of the tree that signify the destruction of African children especially as news came form South and East Africa, that based on superstition, some men believed that you have to have sex with a virgin in order to get rid of the mysterious illness i.e., AIDS.
As a pharmaceutical scientist and teacher of drug manufacturing, she knew the potential of ARV drug therapy a cocktail of different ARV drugs that work synergistically to allow the patient to live with the disease as chronic instead of it resulting in early death.