{"id":72365,"date":"2025-08-06T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72365"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:52:15","slug":"naca-warns-hiv-fight-at-risk-without-local-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/naca-warns-hiv-fight-at-risk-without-local-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"NACA Warns: HIV Fight at Risk Without Local Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has warned that Nigeria\u2019s progress in combating HIV could be reversed without immediate and sustained domestic investment.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on its official X handle on Tuesday, NACA stressed that overreliance on international donors is no longer sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>It said the future of the HIV response depends on strong government commitment, with transparent budget allocations marking true ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes amid sharp cuts in global health funding, including reductions from PEPFAR and USAID.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 alone, Nigeria received over $600 million in disease control support from USAID, but frozen funds now jeopardize essential services, from testing to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>To bridge the gap, the Nigerian government has approved \u20a64.8 billion for the procurement of 150,000 HIV treatment packs and included a $200 million allocation in the 2025 federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>While NACA welcomed these developments, it insisted that long-term sustainability requires more than emergency measures.<\/p>\n<p>The agency called for deliberate investments in local systems to safeguard gains made in the HIV response.<\/p>\n<p>In a positive development, Codix Bio Ltd, a Nigerian firm, will begin local production of HIV and malaria test kits near Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the World Health Organization and in partnership with a South Korean company, the facility aims to produce 147 million kits annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has warned that Nigeria\u2019s progress in combating HIV could be reversed without immediate and sustained domestic investment. In a statement posted on its official X handle on Tuesday, NACA stressed that overreliance on international donors is no longer sustainable. It said the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72367,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365\/revisions\/72367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}