TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of Nigeria Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Pandemic, Nigeria
AU - Bolu, Omotayo
AU - Mustapha, Boss
AU - Ihekweazu, Chikwe
AU - Muhammad, Mukthar
AU - Hassan, Assad
AU - Abdulwahab, Ahmad
AU - Asekun, Adeyelu A.
AU - Nsirim, Reward
AU - Okechukwu, Emeka
AU - Attah, Ibrahim
AU - Swaminathan, Mahesh
AU - Greby, Stacie
AU - Adebiyi, Adebimpe
AU - Alex-Okoh, Morenike
AU - Okwor, Tochi
AU - Ilori, Elsie
AU - Mba, Nwando
AU - Mutah, Joe
AU - Akujobi, James
AU - Battah, Ndirpaya
AU - Haggai, Wilfred
AU - Okatubo, Geoffrey
AU - Okigbo, Awele
AU - Castle, Evelyn
AU - Abubakar, Ibrahim
AU - Akataobi, Charles
AU - Adekunle, Olusegun
AU - Aliyu, Sani H.
N1 - Funding Information: No funding information.
Open Access: Free to read, no Open Access licence.
Publisher Copyright: Emerging Infectious Diseases is published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a U.S. Government agency.
Citation: Bolu O, Mustapha B, Ihekweazu C, Muhammad M, Hassan A, Abdulwahab A, et al. Effect of Nigeria Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Pandemic, Nigeria. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022;28(13):168-176. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2813.220254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2813.220254
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Nigeria had a confirmed case of COVID-19 on February 28, 2020. On March 17, 2020, the Nigerian Government inaugurated the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to coordinate the country's multisectoral intergovernmental response. The PTF developed the National COVID-19 Multisectoral Pandemic Response Plan as the blueprint for implementing the response plans. The PTF provided funding, coordination, and governance for the public health response and executed resource mobilization and social welfare support, establishing the framework for containment measures and economic reopening. Despite the challenges of a weak healthcare infrastructure, staff shortages, logistic issues, commodity shortages, currency devaluation, and varying state government cooperation, high-level multisectoral PTF coordination contributed to minimizing the effects of the pandemic through early implementation of mitigation efforts, supported by a strong collaborative partnership with bilateral, multilateral, and private-sector organizations. We describe the lessons learned from the PTF COVID-19 for future multisectoral public health response.
AB - Nigeria had a confirmed case of COVID-19 on February 28, 2020. On March 17, 2020, the Nigerian Government inaugurated the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to coordinate the country's multisectoral intergovernmental response. The PTF developed the National COVID-19 Multisectoral Pandemic Response Plan as the blueprint for implementing the response plans. The PTF provided funding, coordination, and governance for the public health response and executed resource mobilization and social welfare support, establishing the framework for containment measures and economic reopening. Despite the challenges of a weak healthcare infrastructure, staff shortages, logistic issues, commodity shortages, currency devaluation, and varying state government cooperation, high-level multisectoral PTF coordination contributed to minimizing the effects of the pandemic through early implementation of mitigation efforts, supported by a strong collaborative partnership with bilateral, multilateral, and private-sector organizations. We describe the lessons learned from the PTF COVID-19 for future multisectoral public health response.
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U2 - 10.3201/EID2813.220254
DO - 10.3201/EID2813.220254
M3 - Article
C2 - 36502390
AN - SCOPUS:85143917515
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 28
SP - S168-S176
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
IS - 13
ER -
