With the mandate to co-ordinate the broad spectrum of the AIDS Response, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) interfaces with all the stakeholders involved in the fight against AIDS in Nigeria. We oversee policies, programmes and projects directed at the AIDS issue, provide leadership and monitor the progression of the epidemic.

 

Top executives and selected staff of ten Small- and Medium-Scale Enterprises (SMEs) have received HIV and AIDS training as part of a Chevron/NACA/NiBUCAA SME Wellness Program that took place Dec. 2nd – 5th, 2009. At the opening ceremony that launched the program at the Protea Hotel Lekki, Lagos, the Chief Executives of the SMEs were taken through a training course on HIV and AIDS ahead of the peer educator program for selected staff.

The NACA DG, Prof John Idoko while flagging off the training programme noted that the bulk of the workforce are concentrated within SMEs which makes the SME Wellness Program key to the Agency. Represented by the head of Public Private Partnership, Dr Emmanuel Alhassan, he recognized the role that Chevron Nigeria Limited is playing in championing partnership within the private sector.

Organisations implementing the Global Fund Round Five in Nigeria have come together to consider the performance of the programme. At its 5th Principal Recipients and Sub-Recipients Retreat that held at the Hill Station Hotel, Jos from Wednesday 16th – Saturday 19th December 2009, the Programme’s coordinators tabled facts and figures to the effect that the objectives set for the programme is getting realised progressively.

Participants at the retreat including representatives from the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), Principal Recipients (PRs) and Sub-Recipients (SRs) discussed issues pertaining to the programme's implementation in an open and relaxed environment. The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Society for Family Health (SFH) and the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH), principal recipients for different objectives under the Global Fund Round Five addressed strategies, outcomes and challenges to prosecuting their different mandates.