About this episode

This episode explores the realities of HIV in Nigeria, focusing on local initiatives and personal experiences amidst global funding discussions.

In this opening episode of our year long African Voices series, we look at Nigeria, beyond the funding cuts that so often dominate global headlines. While international reporting focuses on donor decisions and political shifts, this conversation centres what’s happening on the ground, the people, the initiatives, and the communities continuing to respond to HIV with creativity, care, and determination. Through lived experience of both a beneficiary and health care worker, we explore both the challenges being faced and the progress being made, highlighting what’s working, what’s changing, and what deserves far more attention than it usually gets. A huge thank you to Project HOPE for helping connect us, so these stories can be shared authentically, directly from the people living and working within them. Project HOPE | Advancing Global Health & Saving Lives African Voices is a year-long series from The HIV Podcast, sharing perspectives from across the African continent. How to get involved: We’re inviting people living with or affected by HIV to share short voice notes about what’s happening in their country, what the world needs to understand, and what education they want to…

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