Nigeria
Country Situation
Adult HIV prevalence (ages 15-49) in Nigeria, estimated at 3.6% in 2009, appears to have stabilized over the past five years. HIV prevalence among pregnant women, 3.6%, is comparable to the general adult population. Maternal mortality was still very high in Nigeria (630/100,000 live births) in 2010 and it is estimated that 230,000 pregnant women and 360,000 children were living with HIV in 2010.
PMTCT programme coverage is still very limited in Nigeria. Only 4.7% of ANC facilities in Nigeria offer PMTCT services[8]. Although HIV testing among pregnant women increased from 1% in 2005 to 14% in 2010, it is still very low[9]. In 2011, only 18% of pregnant women living with HIV (PWLHIV) received more effective ARVs for PMTCT[3]. In 2010, only 11% of children born to PWLHIV received ARVS for PMTCT, and only 4% of infants born to PWLHIV were tested for HIV within 2 months of birth[9].
Nigeria has developed a national scale up plan towards elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV (2010-2015) and has adopted a combination of WHO 2010 Guidelines Option A and Option B regimens for prophylaxis[10].
Link to the Nigeria_National EMTCT Plan_2010.
Link to the Nigeria Ministry of Health.
