March 2009 — The Niger Delta AIDS Response (NiDAR) project delivered comprehensive, community-based HIV care and treatment services in selected hospitals in five of the nine states of the Niger Delta. The project had two main goals: supporting the activation and implementation of antiretroviral therapy in cottage hospitals and supporting the establishment of HIV counseling and testing and prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. NiDAR, funded by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), supported cottage hospitals to provide high-quality HIV/AIDS services and to improve access to HIV testing, care, treatment and counseling in places where travel to service providers may be difficult.
