Event Description:
The Federal Ministry of Health, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership in Nigeria and the Corporate Alliance on Malaria in Africa (CAMA) are pleased to invite you to a webinar as we discuss how to sustain malaria interventions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The webinar provides ideas and case examples of how governments, the private sector and multilateral institutions are mobilizing to mitigate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic while sustaining efforts to prevent, detect and treat malaria.
Held in observance of World Malaria Day 2020, the webinar will bring together high-level speakers from the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP), WHO, Roll Back Malaria Partnership and the private sector to discuss Nigeria's response and continuity plan to render malaria services as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, as well as private sector engagement on malaria control and elimination.
Speakers include:
Dr. Audu Bala Mohammed, Director, Nigeria National Malaria Elimination Programme
Dr. Francis Aminu, Director Health and Nutrition, Aliko Dangote Foundation
Dr. Lynda Ozor, Malaria Programme Manager, WHO Nigeria
Ms. Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan, Head, Sustainability Corporate Communications, Access Bank
Ms. Nancy Wildfeir-Field, President, GBCHealth
Prof. Olugbenga Mokuolu, Professor College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Dr. Melanie Renshaw, Chief Technical Advisor ALMA and Co-Chair Roll Back Malaria CRSPC