A report by Nigeria’s maiden Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) has shown interruption of HIV services access by COVID-19 as well as stock out of prevention and treatment materials between September and December last year.
The report tagged ‘Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Initiative on COVID-19 and HIV in Nigeria’ was launched in Abuja yesterday, along with the national CLM framework by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in collaboration with UNAIDS and the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and other partners.
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The study was implemented by NEPHWAN in 74 facilities across 15 states of the country with the support of UNAIDS.
The report recommended that the government and stakeholders engaged with the HIV response in Nigeria need to take further strategic actions.
NACA Director-General Dr Gambo Aliyu said the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS affirmed the critical role of communities, adding that member states recognized that to meet the fast track targets, community responses to HIV must be scaled up and committed to at least 30% of services being community led by 2030.
