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 share. These voice notes may be played on the podcast as part of the series.
Episodes will be released monthly, on the last Friday of each month
Voice notes may be played on the podcast
Send a voice note (max 5 minutes, no minimum) to: 07727 666791
Each country has a submission deadline, see image for details
If you’re from one of the 12 countries featured, we’d love to hear from you.
How to take part
Please send us a voice note (maximum 5 minutes, no minimum) to:
07727 666791
In your recording, please include:
• Your name (or a preferred name if you would like to remain anonymous)
• Your connection to HIV (for example: person living with HIV, peer educator, counsellor, activist, doctor, community worker, volunteer)
• The country you are in
Then tell us:
What do you want the world to know about HIV in your country?
This could include access to care, stigma, funding cuts, community realities, or anything you feel the world should understand.
What education would you like to share?
A myth to bust, a message for others, or knowledge that could help support your community.
For more information, please contact:
Deadlines for submissions by country 2026
January 22nd - Nigeria
February 19th- Tanzania
March 19th - South Africa
April 17th - Kenya
May 22nd - Uganda
June 19th - Mozambique
July 24th - Malawi
August 21st - Zambia
September 18th - Zimbabwe
October 23rd - Botswana
November 20th - Lesotho & Eswatini
Sources
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
https://www.beintheknow.org/understanding-hiv-epidemic/data/glance-hiv-nigeria
https://www.phis3project.org.ng/phis3-resources/
https://www.severemalaria.org/countries/nigeria/nigeria-health-system
https://data.theglobalfund.org/location/NGA/access-to-funding
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