NIGERIA: Many people in AIDS denial

Nigeria plans to expand its HIV/AIDS awareness campaign by raising the number of information-dissemination outlets from 20 to 40.

According to Babatunde Osotimehin, chairman of the National Action Committee on HIV/AIDS (NACA), most Nigerians did not believe HIV and AIDS were real.

A local newspaper, This Day, quoted Osotimehin as saying: "Ninety percent of Nigerians know about HIV/AIDS, but only 20 percent believe it is real."

President Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief and the Global AIDS Fund will assist Nigeria in broadening its HIV/AIDS awareness campaign.

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