President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Temitope Ilori as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for an initial term of four years.
Tinubu in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale said Dr Ilori is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Ibadan, and a consultant family physician at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
The former Osun State Commissioner obtained MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan and had her residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
She is a fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West African College of Physicians, and won the A.O. Senbanjo Prize in 2012.
Dr IIori is also an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) and also has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Ibadan.
She is also a PhD fellow in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Dr IIori has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
She served as the Commissioner for Health in Osun State from 2011 to 2014 and Chairperson of the Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS (O-SACA).
President Tinubu her to bring her wealth of experience and expertise into this seminal role to achieve the mandate of NACA.
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Dr Ilori is expected to coordinate monitor, and evaluate the implementation of the Strategic National Plan for the control of HIV/AIDS/STDs, as well as the mobilisation of resources for an effective and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS/STDs.
