MARCH 2009 — The Niger Delta AIDS Response (NiDAR) project delivered comprehensive, community-based HIV care and treatment services in selected hospitals in five of the nine states of the Niger Delta. The project had two main goals, supporting the activation and implementation in cottage hospitals of antiretroviral therapy, and supporting the establishment of counseling and testing, and prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. NiDAR, funded by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), supported cottage hospitals to provide high-quality HIV/AIDS services and to improve access to HIV testing, care, treatment, and counseling in places where travel to service providers may be difficult.