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AIDS treatment resumes as depleted drug stocks replaced
Lagos, Nigeria - Nigeria’s programme of subsidised antiretroviral treatment, interrupted since September last year by drug shortages, has resumed with the arrival of emergency supplies ordered by the government, health officials said on Friday.
Ayo Osinlu, spokesman for the Minister of Health Eyitayo Lambo, said drugs worth 500 million naira [about US $3.8 million] ordered by the government in January began arriving in Nigeria two weeks ago. He said that the 25 special health institutions established across the country for the treatment of 10,000 adults and 5,000 children living with the virus that causes AIDS had begun receiving the drugs.