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Commemoration of PEPFAR’s 17th Anniversary in Nigeria

“A Resilient HIV Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Today marks 17 years since the U.S. Congress passed legislation authorizing the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) – a legislation aimed at combating the HIV/AIDS epidemic around the world. Cumulatively since 2004, the U.S. has invested more than $85 billon in the global HIV/AIDS ...
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By | 27 May, 2020 | Topics: News, Press Releases | Tags: , , ,

With support from USAID, widowed and vulnerable women from Nigeria’s Borno State are being trained to produce more than 50,000 protective masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the coming weeks. Photo: Bassey Aniebiet Akpanudoh/NLCB

USAID Trains War Widows in Northeast Nigeria to Produce Facemasks That Protect Against COVID-19

Maiduguri, Nigeria – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Office of Transition Initiatives is supporting training for women, mostly widowed or otherwise made vulnerable by the Boko Haram insurgency, to produce protective facemasks to help protect the population from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria’s conflict-affected Northeast. After an initial round of trainings ...
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By | 5 May, 2020 | Topics: Events, News | Tags: , , , , , ,

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