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A client receives HIV/AIDS counseling at a women and children’s hospital in Nigeria. These facilities are not always available in rural areas. Flickr/ Karen Kasmauski/MCSP

Nigeria wants to decentralise HIV treatment. But it’s proving difficult

Effectively decentralising HIV and AIDS treatment services helps to improve universal health care. But in Nigeria this approach comes with many challenges.
Campaigns like the Lagos AIDS Walk have created awareness of HIV in Nigeria’s capital, but they are lacking in rural areas, where stigmatisation is rife. Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye

How stigma can stymie Nigeria’s efforts to extend HIV treatment

Creating HIV services at primary health-care centres in Nigeria may improve the uptake of antiretrovirals, but it won’t tackle the issue of stigma.

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