By Ruth Oketunde
The Global Fund, an International Financing Organisation, has announced an additional humanitarian grant of 660 million dollars to tackle HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria epidemic in Nigeria.
Its Executive Director, Mr Peter Sands, announced this at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.
Sands noted that the grant was expected to last for a three-year period to include more people on the treatment of the diseases.
“Nigeria has remained a country in which Global Fund had invested tremendously in the past because of its highest burden of Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS.
“We have invested about 2.6 billion dollars to tackle these epidemics in the past and we intend to do more to get more people on treatment.
We appreciate the hard work in the outcome of the partnership between the government and global fund but we believe that we still have a lot of work to do.
“For HIV and AIDS, we…
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