Saturday, December 24, 2005

Free drugs for HIV positive Nigerians

Some good news, finally on the AIDS-Africa front. The Nigerian health ministry has announced that it will, within two weeks, provide free antiretroviral drugs to HIV/AIDS sufferers.

The government had been heavily criticized for charging for such drugs even though it received them for free from international non-governmental organizations.

Nigeria has the third most HIV infections in the world.

1 Comments:

At 10:27 AM, Blogger Imnakoya said...

It seems someone has finally come to his/her senses in the Ol' country. Time will tell if this is more than a mere policy statement...

 

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