Health
THE federal government says Nigeria aligns with Global Fund’s target to raise at least $18bn for the 2023-2025 funding cycle to save 20 million lives AND reduce mortality of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria by 65 percent.
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, stated this Thursday in Abuja during the pre-conference meeting on the Global Fund’s seventh Replenishment which will be convened by President Biden on September 19 in New York.
Represented by the Minister of State for Health, Ekumankama Nkama, he said Nigeria had consistently had one of the largest Global Fund investment portfolios since inception of the Fund in 2002 and in turn, had committed over $38.79m to the Global Fund.
He said the investment case showed a gap of 20 percent or $28.4bn.
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Gambo Aliyu, said Nigeria contributed $12m to the last Global Fund replenishment and was working towards matching or increasing it in the next replenishment.
-Daily Trust
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