• NACA integrates treatment into health insurance schemesThe Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and some civil society organisations may protest non-release of antiretroviral drugs held up at various seaports across the country. The Head, Occupational Health/Safety Desk of the NLC, Maureen Onyia-Ekwuazi, who spoke on the 2017 World AIDS day slated for December 1, lamented that most of the drugs are expiring owing to long stay at the ports. “Nigeria claims it does not have money, then foreigners send us commodities and we leave them at the ports until they expire. The executive secretary of Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN), Walter Ugwuocha, also bemoaned the non-release of the antiretroviral drugs. “We have containers of commodities that are donated by foreigners but are still languishing at the ports and have incurred huge demurrage.

Source: The Guardian November 23, 2017 04:07 UTC