Temitope Ilori, director-general of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), says there is need for a domestically driven HIV response in Nigeria.
October 15, 2024 12:40 pmTemitope Ilori, director-general of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS , says there is need for a locally driven response to HIV in Nigeria.At the meeting, stakeholders discussed a countrywide HIV sustainability agenda that is owned, driven, resourced and led by the people and government of Nigeria, in line with the Paris Declaration 2005.
“We must do things differently, hence the new business model of doing things if we must move forward.“Over the last two decades, the HIV response in Nigeria has been largely donor dependent. This has made government mandated structures less visible and disengaged from the programme. There is a need to do things differently.
“We have the technology and the resources; all we need is the sheer will to end vertical transmission between mothers and their children. Leo Zekeng, Nigeria country director at UNAIDS, said there is a need to transfer some of the HIV response responsibility to non-governmental organisations.
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