Dr Uzodinma Adirieje: INVITATION TO A WORKSHOP ON COVID-19 AND HIV/AIDS

INVITATION TO A WORKSHOP ON COVID-19 AND HIV/AIDS

While the world was still battling to overcome the HIV/AIDS pandemic now in its fifth decade, it found itself struggling to provide vaccines for COVID-19; and is succeeding. So, how has COVID-19 affected the responses to HIV and AIDS, among individuals, and in families/homes, communities, countries, regions, and global world?

Afrihealth Optonet Association is a civil society network and think-tank of about 600 (Six Hundred) organizations across Africa, The Caribbean, and the global South for Systems Strengthening in Health [including HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria]; Energy, Climate Change and Environment; Nutrition and Food Security; and Gender, Good Governance, Democracy, Human Security, Rights and Dignity; Human Capital Development; promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). AFRIHEALTH is committed to the propagation of ‘Health’ as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being through Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and health systems strengthening, especially in the areas of the SDGs, diseases prevention, provision of care, and impact mitigations using partnerships, advocacy, research/evidence-generation, capacity development, outreaches, and monitoring and evaluation as strategies; focusing on rural and poor urban communities, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations; and exploring the interlinkages between Health, Energy and Environment, Nutrition and Food Security, and Gender, Good Governance and Human Rights. AFRIHEALTH promoted the establishment of the Nigeria UHC Advocacy Group (NUHCAG) and is a member of the Health Care Financing and Investments Technical Working Group (TWG) for UHC at the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria. It is a member of Women-Major-Groups, NGO-Major-Groups, and Together-2030. Afrihealth has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC; and had successfully implemented the ‘Sustainable Citizens Participation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta’ Project on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund during 2017-2018. It also participated in the ‘Roll-out of the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe states, 2020’, funded by the Global Fund; among others.

Afrihealth Optonet Association [CSOs Network] invites you to a workshop.

TOPIC: Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on HIV/AIDS Response

When: Friday, Feb 12, 2021 12:00 PM West Central Africa

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdeyrrDspE9YJuy5vPQbEC8x77D-iAW7m

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Welcome!

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje

CEO and Global Coordinator

Afrihealth Optonet Association [CSOs Network] – with consultative status at UN ECOSOC

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