SPEAKERS NAMED FOR 2022 WORLD MALARIA DAY CONFERENCE: ADVANCE EQUITY, BUILD RESILIENCE, END MALARIA - Your Effort Counts

 SPEAKERS NAMED FOR 2022 WORLD MALARIA DAY CONFERENCE: ADVANCE EQUITY, BUILD RESILIENCE, END MALARIA - Your Effort Counts

23 April 2022

 

Excellency, 

 

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) is a community-focused CSOs network/think-tank of about 1000 organizations in the global South for the promotion of Development Work, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Health - a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being; using partnership/collaboration, advocacy, research/evidence-generation, capacity development, outreaches, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as strategies; for the major benefits of rural and poor urban dwellers, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged populations of women, children, adolescents, disabled, orphans and elderly; while exploring the nexus between Health - PHC, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, NCDs, Vaccines and COVID-19; Energy and Environment - renewable energy, ecosystems, biodiversity, energy efficiency and climate change (REEBEECC); Nutrition including micronutirents and Food Security; Gender, Democracy, Good Governance and Human Rights. AHOA has Consultative Status at United Nations ECOSOC.

 

AHOA and its partners are engaged in taking actions and speaking out about Malaria; worried about the persisting dangerous consequences of its continuous endemicity, morbidities and mortalities especially in Africa where 95% of global malaria cases and 96% of global malaria deaths occurred in 2020 of which 31.9% of the deaths occurred in Nigeria alone^[1]; the efforts towards malaria elimination/eradication; and why this MUST be everyone's business at all times, in all environments/places and at all levels until eradication is achieved.

Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) – CSOs Network invites you and your colleagues/organization to the 2022 World Malaria Day conference:

Theme: ADVANCE EQUITY. BUILD RESILIENCE. END MALARIA - Your Effort Counts

When: Apr 28, 2022 02:00 PM West Central Africa

Keynote address: Dr. Perpetual Uhomoihbi; National Coordinator, National Malaria Elimination Programme, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria

Opening statement: Dr. Diwe Ekweremadu; Chairman, National World Malaria Day Committee (NWMDC) Nigeria.

Conference Moderator: Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje; CEO, Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA); former Chairman, NWMDC Nigeria.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscuirrDIoGdGeJoAXp2vtnay8BhHbtghN

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

Welcome!

Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje

Lead Consultant, Health Systems and Projects Consultants Ltd

Site Coordinator; University of Washington’s online course, Nigeria Abuja Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA)

Twitter: @uaadirieje; https://twitter.com/uaadirieje

Email: afrepton@gmail.com

Instalgram: @druzoadirieje; https://www.instagram.com/druzoadirieje/

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/uzoadirieje;

Skype: druzoadirieje, druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com;

Zoom: druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com     

LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dr.+Uzodinma/Adirieje

Phone, Telegram & WhatsApp: +234 803 472 5905

Website: http://www.afrihealthcsos.org

https://afrihealthoptonetassociation.blogspot.com

Blog: http://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com  

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^[1] WHO (2021). Malaria <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria>