Dr Temitope Ilori has been appointed the new director-general of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA).
She is the first female to be appointed head of the agency.
Although she began her initial term of four years on February 22, 2024, her appointment was only announced on Thursday in a statement by NACA spokesperson Toyin Aderibigbe.
Ilori took over from Dr Gambo Aliyu who was NACA boss from June 2019 till February 2024.
Before her appointment, she was a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Ibadan, and a consultant family physician in the Department of Family Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan.
Ilori obtained her MBBS degree from the University of Ibadan and had her residency training at the University College Hospital. She was the best graduating fellow of the Faculty of Family Medicine, West African College of Physicians in April 2012 winning the A.O. Senbanjo Prize. She is also an associate fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.
Ilori has a bachelor of science and a master of science degree in human nutrition and dietetics from the University of Ibadan. She is a PhD fellow at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
She was a commissioner for health, Osun State from 2011 to 2014 and chairperson, Osun State Agency on Control of HIV/AIDS, and Osun State Technical Working Group on Immunisation.
