The United State Agency for International Development, USAID, has expressed commitment towards ensuring that pregnant women and People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria are provided with adequate medical services.

USAID Administrator, Dr. Rajiv Shah who spoke during an official visit to Island Maternity, Lagos, noted that his visit was in support of the foreign policy goals of the US to save one million lives. "The Agency will equip the hospital with necessary laboratory equipment that will help actualise zero infection of HIV from mother to child, low maternal deaths which will also be extended to other government hospitals across Nigeria.

"This hospital and its outstanding professional doctors and nurses have demonstrated a successful process, they went from 30 percent transmission to zero percent transmission and out of the 51 cases of children who could have been infected, zero children were infected and if Nigeria can replicate what has happened in this hospital throughout this country, it will be well out of its way to achieving its goal of saving one million lives and the United States is proud to be the primary partner to help achieve that outcome."

The US government will actively support Nigeria in immunisation, provision of treated bed nets and eradication of HIV transmission from mother to child.