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Private sector help needed for AIDS

    JOHANNESBURG

    In an effort to prevent HIV/AIDS from sapping its economic lifeblood, Nigeria has urged the private sector to make a greater contribution to combating the disease.

    The most recent official figures show that 5.4 percent of Nigeria's more than 126 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

    Babatunde Osotimehin, the head National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), told Agence France-Presse that companies should provide HIV/AIDS prevention education to the country's workforce, as well as counselling and medical care.

    Osotimehin said: "We are not asking for money from the OPS [organised private sector], but collaboration, using their core competencies."

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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