Monrovia, May 19 -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has boosted the fight against HIV/AIDS in Liberia with a donation of fifty thousand United States dollars and a pledge of two pickups to the National AIDS Commission (NAC). The support was announced Friday, May 16, during the Commission's first fundraising dinner held at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex in Congo Town. The event, held under the theme "Mobilizing domestic resources to strengthen coordination, monitoring and oversight of Liberia's HIV response", aimed to generate funding to address the Commission's growing financial constraints amid donor withdrawal.

President Boakai said the government is committed to stopping new HIV infections by 2030 and emphasized the need ...