Nigeria: How Many Nigerians Are Living With HIV?

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This has been an increasingly controversial question recently. Understanding the burden of HIV in Nigeria is more important now than ever before, because, aside from Nigeria having the second largest population of people living with HIV, and only being able to find about 750,000 people to put on treatment, we are also the subject of an embarrassing Global Fund investigation.

In July this year, many Nigerians working on HIV/AIDS will attend the next International Conference on AIDS holding in South Africa, only the second time ever it's being held in Africa, with the inevitable scrutiny this will bring the HIV response in Nigeria. Your Nigeria Health Watch team will make sure that you do not miss a thing from the conference in Durban.

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