Global Fund, a United Nations agency has given Nigeria a grant of $335M to fight HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in the country for the next three years.Dr. Fatai Bello Executive Secretary of Country Coordinating Mechanism in Nigeria, said this in Calabar during the commencement of five-day retreat organised by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS for principal recipients and sub-recipients, said the fund would cater for the second phase of the programme.
According to him, the funds will be managed by the NACA, Society for Family Health, Association for Reproductive and Family Health and Institute of Human Virology of Nigeria.
He said $266m would be used to manage cases of HIV while tuberculosis treatment would gulp $69m.
Bello said $200m was released in the first phase of the programme, which lasted for two years.
THEN COMES MY BIG QUESTION, With all the grants and aids , how come the Incidence of HIV is continually on the rise? Is it that the programmes and funds given for the HIV and TB fight causes are not properly implemented and utilized by executors , or is it that despite the HIV awareness, individuals have refused to take precautionary measures to avoid contracting the disease?
We have a long way to go!!!
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