Nigeria, April 15 -- The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has cautioned the public against relying on unauthorised HIV data circulating on social media, describing the figures as misleading and taken out of context.

In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday and signed by its Director-General, Temitope Ilori, the agency said the publication, which presents state-by-state HIV figures for January to March 2026, did not follow established protocols for data request, validation, and dissemination.

The clarification follows a widely shared post published on 1 April by Instablog, a popular blog on Instagram, which claimed that Nigeria recorded 20,838 new HIV infections within the first quarter of 2026.

The post listed La...