Crown Agents Nigeria has been appointed as procurement agent by Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN) to provide procurement and customs clearing services to the Sexually and Reproductive Health (SRH)/HIV integrated service programme for two and half years, beginning in July 2011, under the Global Fund HIV/AIDS grant.
The primary focus of the grant is to procure and deliver commodities that support scale-up of SRH/HIV integrated services to about 2 million people in 37 States of Nigeria by December 2012. It is also aimed at scaling up provision of anti-retroviral treatment and related services such as counselling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and community care to ensure that a comprehensive package of HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support is available in all parts of the country.
PPFN, a non-government organisation was nominated as a primary recipient by Country Coordinating Mechanism following the withdrawal of Access Bank and the Christian Health Association of Nigeria. Initially, PPFN was a sub-recipient to Society for Family Health under the Global Fund.