According to the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), Nigeria and UNAIDS have signed an agreement for the establishment of an Africa Centre for AIDS Management. The need to ensure that all Nigerians have access to relevant information, skills, services, care and support by 2010 was given as reason for the muting of the idea.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), NACA Chairman, Babatunde Oshotimehin explained that the effort is the first on the continent, and its establishment will focus more to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The initiative is a spin-off from the universal access concept, which UN member countries established in 2001 to allow nations have more control over their development programmes, particularly in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS.