NIGERIA: Government pushes on with ambitious AIDS plan

Nigeria's subsidised anti-AIDS drug programme will benefit some 150,000 HIV-positive people by the end of this year, according to the country's National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA).

In a recent interview with Radio Nigeria, NACA chairman Babatunde Osotimehin said the authorities had already approved more resources to scale up the number of treatment sites.

A huge part of the new resources will come from US President George W Bush's $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

The government plans to increase the number of people receiving antiretroviral drugs to 250,000 by mid-2006.

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