HIV Aids Patients Protest For Poor Funding Of Anti-Retroviral Drugs

Hundreds of HIV/AIDS positive patients besieged the Abuja office of the National Agency for Control of Aids (NACA) on Monday, in protest over lack of access to anti-retroviral drugs in hospitals and other care centres across the country... See more below:

The protesters, under the aegis of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, are also protesting diminishing funding for HIV/AIDS programmes by international development partners as well as the non-implementation of the Comprehensive Response Plan, a scheme launched by President Jonathan address problems limiting access to antiretroviral drugs.

The protesters caught the staff of NACA off guard as they invaded the NACA office early in the morning.

Protesters were armed with placards and some sleeping materials, indicating that they are determined to stay in the NACA office as long as necessary.

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