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Article

10 Jan 2007

Author:
Colin Macilwain, Nature

AIDS: On the Brink [Nigeria]

...NLNG [Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas - jointly owned by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell, Total, Agip (part of ENI)]...has chosen Bonny Island for an experiment that could change the face of public health in the entire Niger Delta: a partnership between the local community, government agencies and oil and gas companies that strives to study, test for and eventually control AIDS on the island. The project is unusual in that it seeks to pull together industry and government money to support an initiative that will be built from the ground up... The Ibani-se initiative is being supported initially by...NLNG, Shell and ExxonMobil...Merck has contributed the time of...consultants, and plans to eventually supply drugs to the programme at a reduced rate...From [NLNG's] point of view, Buckley [general manager for production] says, the Ibani-se programme is vital to the long-term future of [NLNG's US$15-billion Bonny Island gas liquefaction] plant... [also refers to Halliburton]