In what appears as the first case on the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to be judicially determined in Nigeria, a Lagos
State High Court has awarded the sum of N7 million in favour of an HIV-infected
woman, Mrs. Georgina Ahamefule, against a Lagos-based hospital, Imperial
Medical Centre (IMC) and its Chief Medical Director, Dr. Alex Molokwu.
The judgment is coming 12 years after it was first filed on
behalf of Mrs. Ahamefule by a non-governmental organisation, Social Economic
Rights Action Centre (SERAC).
