Container stacking area at the port.
• NACA integrates treatment into health insurance schemes
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and some civil society organisations may protest non-release of antiretroviral drugs held up at various seaports across the country.
The Head, Occupational Health/Safety Desk of the NLC, Maureen Onyia-Ekwuazi, who spoke on the 2017 World AIDS day slated for December 1, lamented that most of the drugs are expiring owing to long stay at the ports.
She said: “I join the civil society groups in calling on the Federal Ministry of Finance to give whatever waver that is required to get all the commodities that are still in the various ports accumulating demurrage so that our people can have access to the drugs they need.
“Nigeria claims it does not have money, then foreigners send us commodities and we leave them at the ports until they expire.
NLC, others decry non-release of anti-HIV drugs from ports
