Nigeria HIV/AIDS Service Provision Assessment 2008
HIV/AIDS continues to pose major challenges to the socioeconomic development of Nigeria. As of 2006, 2.9 million Nigerians from age 0-49 are living with HIV, and AIDS deaths have taken 220,000 lives. The government in collaboration with development partners has made tremendous progress in expanding services across the country, but much more work is needed to make sure that country has the capacity to expand and sustain services over time. Policymakers and program planners need empirical evidence on the availability of HIV/AIDS-related services in both public and private health facilities in order to effectively and efficiently increase access to care and treatment. Building on the preceding human resources for health (Chankova et al. 2006) and ART costing (Kombe et al. 2004) assessments, the Nigeria HIV/AIDS Service Provision Assessment provides evidence-based results on the infrastructure, type of services, and logistics required to support HIV/AIDS service delivery scale-up.
