AEGiS-AFP News: Nigeria-US-AIDS: US medical school donates 25 mn dlrs to fight AIDS in Nigeria

Nigeria-US-AIDS: US medical school donates 25 mn dlrs to fight AIDS in Nigeria

Agence France-Presse - December 12, 2000

LAGOS, Dec 12 (AFP) - The Harvard School of Public Health is to donate 25 million dollars to programmes to fight AIDS in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, US officials said Tuesday.

The money will be released in five grants of five million dollars over 18 months, the officials said.

The grant was announced by Arese Carrington, a director of the school and wife of former US Ambassador to Nigeria Walter Carrington.

More than 5.4 percent of the sexually active population in Nigeria carries the HIV virus that leads to AIDS and the prevalence rate has risen in recent years.

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