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Nigeria gets Global AIDS Fund money

    JOHANNESBURG
    Nigeria is set to benefit from a recently signed Global AIDS Fund grant agreement, local newspaper This Day reported on Thursday. The Fund has made US $28 million of the $150 million grant immediately available for the expansion of existing programmes for antiretroviral drugs and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS. The Federal Government Secretary, Ufot Ekaette, confirmed that two of the country's AIDS organisations - the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) and the Yakubu Gowon Centre - were beneficiaries of the grant. NACA has estimated that some four million Nigerians are living with HIV/AIDS.

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