The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the commitment expressed by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria towards efforts to end AIDS by 2030.

We welcome His Excellency President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to action to end AIDS by 2030. We are looking forward to supporting government efforts at Federal and State levels to free Nigeria from the AIDS epidemic,” said the UNAIDS Country Director for Nigeria and UNAIDS Focal Point for the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), Bilali Camara.

Addressing a side-event of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 25th September 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari called for “working together to make Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) history by 2030.”

Although Sub-Saharan Africa bears a disproportionate burden of the AIDS epidemic, President Buhari said: “The good news is that the effort of the global community has resulted in greater control, less spread and better management.”

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