President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was launched in 2003 to combat global HIV/AIDS. It is the largest commitment made so far by any nation to combat a single disease in history.

Currently present in 20 countries, PEPFAR is working with host countries to provide treatment, prevention and care for people living with HIV/AIDS and training health care providers.

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The ACTION Project

AIDS Care and Treatment in Nigeria (ACTION) Project of the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) implements HIV and AIDS care, treatment and prevention intervention through the United States Government funded program, PEPFAR – to assist those affected and infected by HIV in 15 countries in Nigeria.

The fight against HIV/AIDS requires coordination and support of many individuals and organizations, therefore, ACTION Project works closely with Nigeria's National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (NACA) and the Federal Ministry of Health to ensure harmony with the national HIV treatment guidelines and programs.

IHVN ACTION goals for Nigeria by the end of COP 2010 include:

• Treat additional 20,827 adults and children at 139 clinical sites in 26 states in Nigeria
• Care for 134,200 HIV-infected adults and additional 261,744 persons affected by AIDS (PABAs)
• Continue to provide clinical services (pain assessment and management, laboratory, OI prophylaxis/management, nutritional assessment/therapy
• Provide 206,886 pregnant women with PMTCT counseling and testing and results
• Provide lab services at 136 individual points of service using a network model to provide appropriate lab capacity and patient support at comprehensive sites as well as HCT stand alone and DOTS sites
• Provide OVC services to 15,749 HIV infected and affected children including adolescent in 23 states of Nigeria
• Support HIV counseling and testing (HCT) for 37,012 clients being evaluated for TB at 100 DOTS points of service

ACTION focuses on the following areas:

• ART Treatment for Adult and Children (including Pregnant women)
• Lab Diagnosis and tracking of patients status
• Care and Support for people living with HIV/AIDS and people affected by HIV/AIDS
• Monitoring and Evaluation including patient flow and reports and progress
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT)
• HIV Counseling and Testing
• Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children
• Training in all the above areas

IHVN ACTION Results

As of June 30th, 2011 187,996 patients received care and support for HIV/AIDS, and 122,153 received ARV drugs and treatment on the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the treatment sites that IHVN supports in Nigeria.