FHI 'GHAINS' New Funds for HIV/AIDS, TB Services in Nigeria

DECEMBER 2004 — Family Health International (FHI) will be among those leading the expansion of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis treatment, care and prevention programs in Nigeria with the organization's latest award for the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria (GHAIN) project. The US$ 193 million, five-year award is part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and will be the largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS project ever implemented in a developing country setting.

GHAIN will support the Emergency Plan's goals to provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment to more than 68,000 persons, provide HIV care to more than 1,500,000 persons, including orphans and vulnerable children, while preventing 800,000 new infections by 2009.

The FHI-managed GHAIN project includes team members from the public and private sectors: the American National Red Cross/ Nigerian Red Cross Society, the Axios Foundation, the Centre for Development and Population Activities, the Futures Group, the German Leprosy and TB Relief Agency, and Howard University. Other partners include the Christian Health Association of Nigeria, and the Corporate Council on Africa, the International Labour Organization, and the Islamic Medical Association of Nigeria. (View a larger image of GHAIN staff.)

The project activities will be developed with communities and other stakeholders. Services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, STI prevention and treatment, and communication programs will further the goal of HIV prevention in Nigeria. GHAIN will work closely with other U.S. government implementing partners, including the Institute of Human Virology/University of Maryland.

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Photo: Staff members from the Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria (GHAIN) pose with Sheila Mitchell, Senior Vice President Operations, Institute for HIV/AIDS, Family Health International. (FHI) View a larger image.