Federal Government demonstrated its support and solidarity with the international community by making a financial pledge of 12 million Dollars to the Global Fund toward tackling HIV and Tuberculosis.
Information about the pledge is in a statement by Toyin Aderibigbe, the Media Officer, National Agency for Control of AIDS on Tuesday in Abuja.
She noted that the pledge was made by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, at the Sixth Replenishment Conference of Global Fund to fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria held in Lyon, France on October 9 and October 10.
She quoted the minister as saying “every Nigerian has a right to good health. We have a responsibility to ensure that this basic right is available to all Nigerians.
“Government is committed to enhancing ownership and sustainability of the HIV/AIDS response”.
He stressed that the pledge was in accordance with President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment at the UN General Assembly.
in 2017 to make government resources (approximately N3.5 billion) available to enable an additional 50,000 Nigerians be on life-saving Antiretroviral therapy every year.
Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, who spoke on “Building on the Concept of Shared Responsibility” at the conference,
said “with the incredible support of partners and donors around the world, we succeeded in reaching over 14 billion Dollars to help save 16 million lives”.
Gunilla Carlsson, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, said “Nigeria bears a huge burden of the global TB, malaria and HIV epidemics, so it is imperative that both domestic and international investments are urgently scaled up”.
Dr Gambo Aliyu, the Director General, National Agency for Control of AIDS, described the increase in Nigeria’s pledge to the Global Fund as a strong signal of the country’s readiness and commitment to end tuberculosis, malaria and HIV epidemics.
He said “continued government funding for National Treatment and Prevention Programmes is vital for the sustainability of the AIDS
response”.
The director general, however, appealed to state governors to equally show commitment in investing to end AIDS in Nigeria as a public health threat by 2030.
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