President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Dr. Temitope lori to serve as the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for an initial term of four years.
Dr. Ilori is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine at the University of lbadan, and a consultant family physician at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
She obtained her MBBS degree from the University of lbadan and had her residency training at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.
She is a fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West Africar
College of Physicians, and won the A.O.Senbanjo Prize in 2012. She is also an associate fellow of the
National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN).
Dr. Ilori has both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Nutrition and Dietetics
from the University of lbadan, and she is a PhD fellowin the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
She has co-authored over 30 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She was Commissioner for Health in Osun State from 2011 to 2014 and Chair person of the Osun State
Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS (O-SACA).
The President expects the new Director-General to bring her wealth of experience and expertise into this seminal role to achieve the mandate of NACA whichincludes the coordination, monitoring, and evaluation of the implementation of the Strategic National Plan for the control of HIV/AIDS/STDs, as well as the mobilization of resources for an effective and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS/STDs.