Nigeria Says Needs $248 Million to Fight AIDS
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria needs about $248 million to expand its anti-AIDS program and provide life-saving pills for 200,000 of its 3.5 million citizens infected with the virus, the country&#39;s health minister said Wednesday.
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PRETORIA -- The global fight against AIDS has more than $6 billion to spend this year, employs hundreds of thousands of dedicated workers, and now has unparalleled attention from world leaders.
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PRETORIA -- The Bush administration said yesterday it would extend by two months a deadline for other countries to contribute roughly $240 million to the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an amount that is required before the United States releases its full pledge.
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Donors pledged $9.7 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria at a fund-raising conference in Berlin, well short of the $15 billion to $18 billion the fund had hoped to raise.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Up to half a million HIV-positive Africans die each year because health chiefs have failed to coordinate the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, the UN said yesterday.
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Media in the Middle East and North Africa, with one of the fastest AIDS growth rates, needs to help combat the epidemic by fighting cultural taboos, a U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said on Tuesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 25 -- The United Nations' AIDS agency on Tuesday called for the world to quadruple its spending on the disease in order to reach the U.N. goal of providing universal access to effective treatment by 2010.
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President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to authorize an additional $30 billion to fight AIDS in Africa over five years, doubling the current U.S. commitment.
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Nigeria looks to cheap satellites and strategic investment in space technology to help fix some of its biggest earthly problems.
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At least 75 million US dollars has been pledged to support the health sector in Nigeria, Africa&#39;s most populous country, in an effort to hasten the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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The Bush administration's global AIDS plan has helped put at least 25,000 people on antiretroviral therapy since it began disbursing money in February to organizations and governments in 15 targeted countries.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders agreed on Friday a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa.
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African leaders will lobby the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital for the continent's health, officials said.
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Millions of people with HIV will die unless cheap drugs are made more widely available, experts have warned. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has a target of getting antiretrovirals (ARVs) to three million
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KANO, Nigeria  - Political leaders and health  workers launched a drive Saturday to immunize more than 80  million children against polio in 23 African nations and fight  back against a resurgence of the crippling disease.
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A new global fund is needed to fight cancer which kills more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined and threatens to reach epidemic proportions in the next decade, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.