HAPSAT Nigeria: Policy Modeling to Support Strategic Planning for Sustainable HIV/AIDS Services
In the past five years, Nigeria has scaled up a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS, putting nearly 300,000 persons on life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART) regimens and adding hundreds of service delivery points for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and HIV counseling and testing (HCT). Concomitant with this effort, HIV prevalence estimated from antenatal surveillance appears to be declining from its peak. The most recent estimate from population-based surveillance is that 3 million Nigerians are HIV-infected (Federal Ministry of Health, Antenatal Surveillance Report 2008). Even as it stabilizes, the epidemic generates a large and growing demand for health services as more people living with HIV/AIDS begin ART, move to second-line regimens, and need regular care to monitor progression of the disease.
