Nigeria Commits $200 Million to Offset Trump’s Aid Freeze
- Additional health funding to be drawn from state coffers
- US pays for about 90% of HIV/Aids treatment in Nigeria
The American President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief pays for about 90% of treatment in Nigeria.
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Nigerian lawmakers approved an additional $200 million in federal spending this year to fund health services impacted by a freeze of US Agency for International Development funding.
The extra allocation, which wasn’t in an initial budget proposal sent by President Bola Tinubu to parliament in December, will be drawn from the state’s coffers.