Effect of Nigeria Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Pandemic, Nigeria

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Bolu, Omotayo ; Mustapha, Boss ; Ihekweazu, Chikwe ; Muhammad, Mukthar ; Hassan, Assad ; Abdulwahab, Ahmad ; Asekun, Adeyelu A. ; Nsirim, Reward ; Okechukwu, Emeka ; Attah, Ibrahim ; Swaminathan, Mahesh ; Greby, Stacie ; Adebiyi, Adebimpe ; Alex-Okoh, Morenike ; Okwor, Tochi ; Ilori, Elsie ; Mba, Nwando ; Mutah, Joe ; Akujobi, James ; Battah, Ndirpaya ; Haggai, Wilfred ; Okatubo, Geoffrey ; Okigbo, Awele ; Castle, Evelyn ; Abubakar, Ibrahim ; Akataobi, Charles ; Adekunle, Olusegun ; Aliyu, Sani H.
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  COVID-19/epidemiology Humans Pandemics/prevention & Control Public Health SARS-COV-2
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(Suppl 1):S168-S176
• Pubmed ID:
  36502390
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9745225
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Nigeria
• Volume:
  28
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5c920992c1272ce6e2a1ef6e39b29fc70f58f9da8d8b7a40502d59df3c4c6911
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123297/cdc_123297_DS1.pdf
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