The politics of HIV/AIDS and its effects on food security of Nigeria

This paper the politics of HIV/AIDS and its effects on food security of Nigeria tends to focus on how globalization and trade affect the ability of African countries to respond to HIV/AIDS pandemic with particular reference to Nigeria. The work also critically and analytically looked at issues under the W.T.O regime on politics of Antiretroviral drugs (ARVS) to HIV/AIDS victims and how it affects food security of the developing nations like Nigeria. With a heavy reliance on secondary sources of data collection backed by the analytical approach, the paper revealed that HIV/AIDS depletes human capital, agricultural production and productivity, it withdraws financial support from agricultural sector in favour of health and funeral expenditures, it cut social network and makes it financially impossible for agricultural household to intensify food production. In addition, the paper further traces the possible ways of contracting with HIV/AIDS and brings out possible ways of prevention and care. The paper finally recommends among other things that African `governments and Nigeria in particular should prioritize effort in funding the production of local antiretroviral drugs and ARV therapy to enable HIV victims access to ARVS at, affordable rate.