Covid-19
In March 2020, CVD-Mali Director, Professor Samba Sow, was appointed WHO Covid-19 Special Envoy for West Africa.
The role’s responsibilities include overseeing and coordinating responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the countries of West Africa, liaising between local and government agents and WHO representatives both regionally and centrally.
CVD-Mali has also transformed a number of its existing interventions into Covid-19 response programmes, in order to augment healthcare capacity in Mali and reinforce the country’s efforts to combat the epidemic.
You can read more about our Covid-19 response here.
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