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Nigerian law makes providing services to men who have sex with men (MSM) a punishable offense. But a clinic in Abuja, run by the Institute for Human Virology, Nigeria, bills itself as "MSM friendly" and dodges the legal hurdles to test and treat this community for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Studies run by the clinic, which has another outpost in Lagos, have found that a startling 45% of them test positive for HIV. Official Nigerian statistics by and large ignore this community, and a recent survey of undergraduates found that 40% of them believed that health care workers should not provide services to them.