Nigeria renews fight against HIV, TB, malaria with Global Fund’s $933 grant

The Nation Newspaper Nigeria renews fight against HIV, TB, malaria with Global Fund's $933 grant

is bolstering its fight against the human immunodeficiency virus , Tuberculosis , and Malaria with a new grant of $933 million from the Global Fund, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS has said.

Temitope Ilori, the Director General of NACA, emphasized that this development is crucial for achieving a domestically driven HIV response aimed at ending AIDS and its associated conditions as a public health threat in an effective, efficient, and sustainable manner.

She, however, urged the new team to focus on the shared goal of eliminating the disease by the target date, saying, “I urge you to reflect on how our work can ensure that we eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV in collaboration with the National HIV, Hepatitis, and STI Control Programme .

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