An independent AIDS charity organisation, The Elton John AIDS Foundation, has donated one million antiretroviral treatment medications to people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
In a statement on Tuesday, EJAF said it had raised over £100m to provide grants for 15 countries across four continents and supported more than 1,300 projects since 1993.
Although HIV prevalence is much lower in Nigeria than in other African countries such as South Africa and Zambia, the Founder, Beth Model Management Nigeria limited, Mrs. Elizabeth Aisien, said the size of Nigeria's population meant that as at the end of 2009, there were an estimated 3.3 million people living with HIV.
Aisien lauded the efforts of the foundation for supporting Africans through the provision of antiretroviral treatment among other interventions.
"Africa is home to only about 14.5 per cent of the world's population, and yet as at 2009 it was home to 69 per cent of all people living with HIV and to 72 per cent of all AIDS deaths," she said.
