Global Fund: Nigeria receives $890m grant to tackle HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria
Nigeria has received $890 million grant from Global Fund to tackle HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria over an implementation period of three years, beginning from 2021 to 2023. Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, announced the receipt of the grant at a news conference in Abuja, yesterday. The Global Fund is to fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is an innovative international financing mechanism established by the United Nations in 2002, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It is a global partnership of governments, civil society and private donors. It was established for the purpose of attracting, leveraging and investing resources to fund public health interventions to accelerate the eradication of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in affected high burden countries, towards Sustainable Development Goals. Ehanire said that the fund was the largest made to any country in the funding cycle, attributing it to the successful funding request made by the Nigeria Country C...