In collaboration with FMOH, NACA, and other development partners, the Institute has been supporting infrastructural upgrades and capacity building for the treatment and care of people living with HIV/AIDS at sites that it supports in Nigeria. Through its ACTION Project, IHVN has as of 31st March 2011, trained 20,507 health care providers in ARV care, strategic information/M&E, palliative care and support, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, good laboratory practice, TB/HIV, HIV counseling and testing, injection safety and blood safety – testing,abstinence and policy development.  

IHVN has activated 100 laboratories primary, secondary and tertiary health institutions in the country under the aegis of President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Most of these laboratories are located in IHVN supported sites.

Laboratory scientists at the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) sites under the National PMTCT program were among the first sets of personnel who received training on Rapid HIV Testing at the Institute’s Training Laboratory in Asokoro, Abuja. The scientists, mainly from the Federal Medical Centers in the country, were taught how to detect antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 using kits in line with the National Testing algorithm.