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Nigeria needs $1.2bn to combat HIV/AIDS – UNAIDS and Others

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May 26, 2015 :


Country Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, on Tuesday said Nigeria requires $1.2bn (N236.4bn) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in the country.
Camara said this during the training workshop on the ambitious 90-90-90 treatment target organised by UNAIDS in collaboration with the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said the foreign donors provide $600m (N118.2bn), which represents 50 per cent of the funds required for the treatment programme, while Nigeria provides 25 per cent of the funds required.
According to Camara, the fund provided by Nigerian government is grossly inadequate to close the treatment gap in the country.
He said Nigeria needs more domestic funding to effectively tackle HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country.
He added that the governments had not shown enough commitment in the area of resource allocation to fight the disease.
“There is lack of leadership at state level to address the issue in pragmatic way,” he said.
He said the workshop was organised to sensitise health correspondents and other stakeholders on the target, which aims at fast tracking the HIV response.
“Our intention is to ensure that journalists, reporting HIV/AIDS, keep on helping the public to understand and support the drive to achieve the target by 2020.
“The participation of representatives of people living with HIV will give us an opportunity to get new ideas that will keep Nigeria on the path of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030,” he said.
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The country director said the target would ensure that by the year 2020, 90 per cent of all people, living with HIV, would know their HIV status.
“Ninety per cent of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained anti-retroviral therapy and 90 per cent of all people receiving anti-retroviral therapy will have viral load suppression,’’ he said.
The National Coordinator of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, Mr Edward Ogenyi, said when people living with HIV understand the 90-90-90 target and drives the process, it would send the message down to the communities.
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Tuesday 26 May 2015

Nigeria needs $1.2bn to combat HIV/AIDS – UNAIDS and Others

May 26, 2015 :


Country Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, on Tuesday said Nigeria requires $1.2bn (N236.4bn) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS in the country.
Camara said this during the training workshop on the ambitious 90-90-90 treatment target organised by UNAIDS in collaboration with the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Abuja on Tuesday.
He said the foreign donors provide $600m (N118.2bn), which represents 50 per cent of the funds required for the treatment programme, while Nigeria provides 25 per cent of the funds required.
According to Camara, the fund provided by Nigerian government is grossly inadequate to close the treatment gap in the country.
He said Nigeria needs more domestic funding to effectively tackle HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country.
He added that the governments had not shown enough commitment in the area of resource allocation to fight the disease.
“There is lack of leadership at state level to address the issue in pragmatic way,” he said.
He said the workshop was organised to sensitise health correspondents and other stakeholders on the target, which aims at fast tracking the HIV response.
“Our intention is to ensure that journalists, reporting HIV/AIDS, keep on helping the public to understand and support the drive to achieve the target by 2020.
“The participation of representatives of people living with HIV will give us an opportunity to get new ideas that will keep Nigeria on the path of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030,” he said.
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The country director said the target would ensure that by the year 2020, 90 per cent of all people, living with HIV, would know their HIV status.
“Ninety per cent of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained anti-retroviral therapy and 90 per cent of all people receiving anti-retroviral therapy will have viral load suppression,’’ he said.
The National Coordinator of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, Mr Edward Ogenyi, said when people living with HIV understand the 90-90-90 target and drives the process, it would send the message down to the communities.
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