Chevron Disburses $2.5m To Support Global Fund
By Chioma Umeha
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (Global Fund) in Nigeria received a boost as Chevron Nigeria Limited
(CNL) disbursed $2.5 million donated by Chevron Corporation, United States,
weekend.
Announcing the disbursement in Lagos, Mr. Esimaje
Brikinn, General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, CNL, said the
fund is for the implementation of the Chevron-Global Fund Anti-Retroviral
Treatment Service Maintenance Programme (ART Programme) in Delta, Bayelsa, Ondo
and Lagos States.
These funds are in addition to US$6.7 million
earlier donated by Chevron to the Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of
HIV (PMTCT) in Bayelsa State.
Brikinn, said a final installment of $2.5 million
would be disbursed in 2018, to support these HIV programmes, amounting to a
total contribution of US$5 million being donated by Chevron.
He said the disbursements are part of a nine-year
$60 million commitment from Chevron to the Global Fund.
The Fund, one of the world’s largest international
financiers of health care programmes to fight tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria,
raises and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programmes run by
local experts to fight the three diseases in countries and communities most in
need.
The ART programme, according to Brikinn, will help
bridge a critical national health gap and continue Chevron’s work in achieving
an AIDS-free generation.
He added that the programme will also help reduce
new HIV infections and improve the quality of life for the infected and
affected people in the communities of the targeted states.
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