Global Fund Plans $1.2bn Health Spending In Nigeria

The Global Fund and its international partners have budgeted $1.2billion to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the next three years in Nigeria.
A member of Global Fund Board, Ms Veronique Lorenzo, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, yesterday.
Lorenzo, who was on a working visit to Nigeria, said that the “high burden states” like Nasarawa, would benefit from the funding after the modalities for disbursement had been concluded.
According to her, some of the contributing donors to the fund includes the European Union, United Kingdom Department for International Development, France, Germany and the United States
“We also have other partners like the Bill Gates Foundation, the list is very long,” she said.
She also said that the donors had agreed to harmonise their programmes with other interventions in the health sector to avoid duplication.
The board member said government agencies such as the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and the Institute of Human Virology would benefit from the fund as implementing partners.