National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Abuja, Nigeria.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jul;31(7):1422-8. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0349.
Prior to the start of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Nigeria struggled to fight HIV/AIDS. PEPFAR changed everything. I witnessed this change firsthand by directing the response to AIDS, first in my hospital in Jos, in central Nigeria, and now as Nigeria's HIV/AIDS coordinator. When the first AIDS case was diagnosed in Nigeria in 1986, my country had one of the world's poorest health systems, and as the pandemic spread, most Nigerians with AIDS died. Eventually, effective new drugs were developed, but they were too costly for all but a few Nigerians. Then there was a miracle: PEPFAR gave us resources, direction, and expertise to treat hundreds of thousands of people around the country. Today, Nigeria is providing treatment to 500,000 people with AIDS, and 80 percent of them receive treatment supported by PEPFAR. The US effort did more than help us treat people with HIV/AIDS; it also enabled Nigeria to strengthen its health system, improve care for pregnant women and infants, increase the provision of vaccinations, build modern laboratories, and train thousands of new health care workers and technicians.
在总统艾滋病紧急救援计划（PEPFAR）启动之前，尼日利亚一直在努力应对艾滋病。PEPFAR 改变了这一切。我亲眼目睹了这一变化，我曾在尼日利亚中心城市乔斯的医院领导艾滋病应对工作，现在我担任尼日利亚艾滋病协调员。1986 年，尼日利亚首次诊断出艾滋病病例时，我国的卫生系统是世界上最贫穷的卫生系统之一，随着疫情的蔓延，大多数艾滋病患者都死亡了。最终，虽然开发出了有效的新药，但对大多数尼日利亚人来说，这些药物的费用太高了。后来发生了一个奇迹：PEPFAR 为我们提供了资源、方向和专业知识，以治疗全国成千上万的人。如今，尼日利亚正在为 50 万艾滋病患者提供治疗，其中 80%的患者接受 PEPFAR 支持的治疗。美国的努力不仅帮助我们治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者；它还使尼日利亚能够加强其卫生系统，改善对孕妇和婴儿的护理，增加疫苗接种，建立现代化实验室，并培训数千名新的医疗保健工作者和技术人员。
