Nigeria, seven others begin African-led HIV vaccine development

Eight African countries including Nigeria have begun a groundbreaking, African-led HIV vaccine research and development project.

Other countries are South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Mozambique.

The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Temitope Ilori, made this known during a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday.