Nigeria: Donor Cuts, Govt Inaction Push HIV Patients Towards Death, Uncertainty in Rivers, Akwa Ibom (2)
[Premium Times] In the second part of this three-part series, PREMIUM TIMES found that while governments approved budgets for HIV programmes, critical funds often failed to reach the health system.
In Rivers and Akwa Ibom states, Nigeria's highest HIV-burden regions, governments approved budgets for HIV programmes but failed to release the funds, leaving the community health worker who delivered antiretroviral medicines to Grace* without a job, counselling sessions to end and confidential support to vanish. International donors were scaling back community HIV programmes, but the investigation found little evidence that governments in these states were prepared to fill the gap.
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