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ALCO is a sub-regional institution engaged in prevention,
care and treatment of STIs / HIV / AIDS and in the
facilitation of the free movement of people and goods.
As the transport sector plays an essential role in development in West Africa (it generates 6% of the region's GDP), the member states of ECOWAS and UEMOA have decided to improve the competitiveness of the main corridors of West African transport, tools of solidarity towards the landlocked member countries and factors of development of intra-regional trade.
The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor materializes this vision. 1022 km long, it crosses the five countries of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria. Approximately 27 million travelers, many of whom are traders and 140,000 truckers, use this service dotted every year with ports, agro-industries, bus stations, large regional markets, places of transit of goods, border areas, parks. used vehicle sales. It concentrates 65% of the region's economic activities.
With the advent of the HIV pandemic, the Heads of State of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria decided to create the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organization (ALCO April 30, 2002. Its mandate is to lead a regional program for cross-border HIV prevention and care and to facilitate the free movement of people and goods in addition to national efforts.
A Corridor of Development impelled by a population in good health, enjoying all its rights and moving freely in complete safety with its goods.
- Coordinate in a coherent and effective system the national strategies and policies for the fight against STIs / HIV / AIDS along the said corridor and at the same time boost these policies;
- Controlling the specific phenomenon of the spread of HIV / AIDS and STIs along the Abidjan-Lagos corridor
- Strengthen, create or help create health facilities and services for the fight against HIV / AIDS;
- Facilitate the access of migrants and local populations in contact with them to preventive measures and health centers;
- Strengthen the capacities of national public and private structures to fight HIV / AIDS and facilitate cooperation between them;
- Negotiate on behalf of member states with development partners interested in the subject of this agreement;
- Cooperate with any regional or sub-regional organization, particularly ECOWAS;
- Promote, where appropriate, identical legislation in the five member countries in relation to national policies.
- Truck drivers and other mobile populations
- Local populations
- Dressed bodies
- Sex Professionals (PS)
- Men who have sex with Men (MSM)
- People Living with HIV (PLWHIV)
- Injectable Drug Users (IDU)
- Girls and women