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The House of Representatives is acceptable to analyse the $4.6 cardinal grants, comprising the $1.8 cardinal the state received from Global Fund and $2.8 cardinal taken from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) betwixt 2021 and 2025 for effect against HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and enactment to resilient and sustainable systems for health.
This followed the adoption of a question presented by Hon. Philip Agbese (APC, Benue) astatine plenary connected Tuesday.
Presenting the motion, Agbese noted that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, established successful 2002, aims to mobilise resources and accelerate planetary efforts to extremity these epidemics, peculiarly successful regions similar sub-Saharan Africa.
He besides noted that Nigeria received an estimated $1.8 cardinal successful grants from the Global Fund betwixt 2021 and 2025 to combat HIV, TB and malaria arsenic good arsenic implicit $2.8 cardinal from USAID for the play of 2022 and 2024 to code akin wellness challenges.
The lawman House Spokesperson stated that; “the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) contributed implicit $6 cardinal to Nigeria from 2021 to 2025 for combating HIV/AIDS and strengthening wellness and assemblage systems.
“The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare oversees USAID grants, portion the Country Coordinating Mechanism Nigeria is liable for implementing the Global Fund grants.”
He expressed interest that contempt these important investments, Nigeria remains burdened by nationalist wellness threats, including “15,000 AIDS-related deaths among children aged 0-14 successful 2023; 51,000 AIDS-related deaths successful 2023, ranking Nigeria 3rd globally successful HIV-related deaths.
“The highest malaria load globally, with 26.6% of cases and 31% of deaths worldwide;
(d) Nigeria ranking archetypal successful Africa and sixth globally successful TB burden, accounting for 4.6% of the planetary TB burden.”
Agbese said the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets 2030 arsenic the people for eliminating HIV, TB, and malaria, a extremity Nigeria is improbable to execute if existent trends persist.
“Also acrophobic that determination has been nary broad and coordinated oversight by the National Assembly regarding the implementation and utilisation of these grants.
“Worried that without contiguous reevaluation and robust oversight, Nigeria risks failing to conscionable the 2030 elimination target, continuing to carnivore an tremendous illness load and suffering important colonisation losses,” helium added.
Adopting the motion, the House mandated its Committee connected HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Control to analyse the utilisation of grants received by Nigeria from 2021 to 2025 for combating HIV, TB, and malaria and study backmost wrong 4 weeks for further legislative action.
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