Nigeria, June 11 -- Nigeria has unveiled a new National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) 2026-2030, outlining a transition from donor-supported interventions to a domestically financed and government-led response to HIV/AIDS.

The plan, presented on Thursday in Abuja, comes amid declining external funding and growing calls for Nigeria to assume greater ownership of its health system, particularly in sustaining long-term HIV interventions.

Speaking at the unveiling ceremony, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Temitope Ilori, said Nigeria's HIV response had reached a critical point that requires a strategic reset in line with emerging realities.

Ms Ilori said the country had recorded significant p...